[Sca-cooks] Re: timbales

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Vincent Cuenca wrote:
>> Torta de Lasagne, from the 14th c. Neapolitan "Liber De Coquina"  is a
>> dish
>> lined with lasagne then filled with raviolis, eggs, cheese etc in layers.
>> It's then decorated with a dough sculpture, but the basic dish is there.
>>
>> The Torta Parmesana present in at least 3 different 14th c. Italian texts
>> lines a pot with "paste" and then fills it with layers of pastas, meat,
>> eggs
>> etc.  See PPCs 59 & 61 for a discussion of this dish and it's development
>> into modern timbales  (though I don't care for the article's claim
>> that the
>> dish goes back to Babylonian times)
>
> This sounds a lot like the "timpano" served in "The Big Night". Found it in
> the comedy section of the video store, but it wasn't all that funny.  Good,
> but not funny.  The dish is basically a pot lined with pasta dough and then
> filled with cheese, meatballs, hand-rolled ziti, and sauce and baked.  It
> was round, golden-brown, and caused death threats on the chef. (Direct
> quote: "That was so good I should kill you!")  I saw that thing turned out
> of the pot and I started drooling.

I'm pretty sure I have a recipe for a slightly simplified version of a
timpano (and I recall the word being used interchangably with timbalo, I
think). I think it's Bolognese, but I could be wrong, and I couldn't
find the file in a very brief search of my hard disk. I think what was
made for "Big Night" was a very eggy pasta, which is why it was possible
to bake it from a raw state and eat it.


Adamantius
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