Tigelle recipe from Modena: ingredients, step-by-step & where to try them
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What's tigelle? It's a typical bread of Modena, usually served with cured meat and cheese or pesto made of lard and garlic.Their history is interesting and complicated. It's time to shed some light on this delicious food.
The name tigelle refers to ancient clay disks about 15cm large and 1.5 cm thick, built with chestnut groundland. Then they were shaped into a wooden mold with bas-relief engravings, then dried and finally cooked.In ancient times, farmers of the Appennino mountains had to feed poor and usually large families.Therefore they used to cook small balls of dough called crescentine on the clay disks (tige