Die insert for the production of: Egg Filini 14

Data: 2002

Author

Collocation

BAR I Q 2002 00014

Details

Marca: Barilla

Note

FEATURES
Durum Wheat Semolina Egg Pasta
Length mm 11,00 – Diam. mm 0,75.

DIFFUSION AREA
Diffused in all of the Italian regions.

THE NAME
Very thin and short strands of pasta. Cited in writings of the 17th Century, they were made in some nunneries and sent, with a curious cerimonial ritual, to the nursing mothers or to the ill members of the noble families of Rome, the Eternal City. In Naples, Filini and Capelli d’angelo (Angel Hair) were used to prepare an oven baked pastry dish, while in some areas of Southern Italy there was a tradition to make a very peculiar dessert using the fine threads of this pasta.

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