[Sca-cooks] Timbale

[Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy]

Michael Gunter wrote:

>> but timbale like dishes do appear
>> in the medieval Italian corpus:
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> Great information! Thanks! I need to play with
> these recipes sometime. I'd love to do them.


I can't and won't say they don't, but it should be noted that at least modern timbale are more or less the containers they're cooked in, with a huge variety of ingredients and varying cooking methods. Some have a lining pastry, many don't, some are essentially schtuff mixed with custard and baked in a bain-marie. and most of them are fairly small, along the lines of a double shot glass. Which is not to say they could not share a common ancestry with Italian torta of various types, but then a lot of Italian tortas from period have survived, in largely unchanged form, to the present day.



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