16th Century Crostini with Cheese
From deliathecrone 17 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 18
An interesting dish directly from a 16th Century Italian cookbook.
Ingredients
- 18 slices French bread (1 to 1.5 cm), or some slices of coarse bread you cut small rounds from shopping list
- 3 mozzarella cheese made with buffalo milk of 150 gram each shopping list
- 60 gram butter shopping list
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar (icing sugar) with 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon shopping list
- 1 or 2 tablespoons rose water shopping list
How to make it
- Toast the slices of french bread or larger slices.
- Then fry them shortly in butter over a slow fire. The bread must be golden, not brown.
- Cut the cheese in 18 slices.
- Preparation:
- Heat the (oven with built-in) grill.
- Cover each piece of bread with a slice of Mozzarella. Place the crostini under the grill until the cheese has melted and is starting to colour.
- Take from the grill, sprinkle sugar with cinnamon over it, and rose water.
- Serve: As soon as possible.
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buffalo milk wow...........different isnt it
minitindel
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Mozzarella di Bufala. It is a a common staple in Italy even today. Insalata caprese should be made with this versus what we usually get in the grocery store as fresh milk mozzarella.
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This sounds amazing. I would never have thought of mozzarella as a sweet dish. And mozzarella di bufala has a really nice flavor.
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