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Tolenta with Sausages

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900).

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A historical recipe

Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross (1900).

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Make a polenta as above (alia Parmigiana) and while cooling boil two or three sausages in an earthen pot with very little water.
  2. When done, skin them, break them into small pieces, and add a little stock and tomato conserve.
  3. Lay the polenta in a baking dish, putting some sausage and grated Parmesan cheese between ^ This is an American recipe.
  4. each layer with some bits of butter here and there.
  5. Then cook with fire above and below, or in the oven, and serve very hot.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Baking dish
  • Grater
Source public domain per archive.org metadata; unverified
Credit

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900), printed page 86, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/leavesfromourtu01rossgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.