{"id":42763,"date":"2024-12-28T17:08:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T16:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tortelliniandco.com\/?p=42763"},"modified":"2024-12-28T18:29:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T17:29:59","slug":"sweet-potato-pudding-without-flour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tortelliniandco.com\/en\/sweet-potato-pudding-without-flour\/","title":{"rendered":"Potato pudding, a recipe from cucina povera (without flour)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sweet potato pudding is a recipe that belongs to my family’s repertoire and to the cucina povera of Bologna and Romagna, an area where potatoes are a traditional product and were historically part of the food diet of the poor people.<\/p>\n

I can still hear my maternal grandmother’s voice as she laces up her apron, remembering when she had only potatoes and imagination. One of the most memorable repertoires of potato recipes was born from that inexhaustible reservoir of inventiveness and recipes exchanged between her and friends or acquaintances. I have never counted them, but there are about a hundred. And since I am a potato eater, I should write them down correctly and do something with them; who knows, the coming year will inspire me!<\/p>\n

As a child, I ate many dishes that contained potatoes or had the tuber as the main ingredient. Cooking potatoes often was a habit developed in my grandmother’s younger years, when World War II reduced many Italians to hunger. For those who lived in the countryside, it was easier to find something to eat, yet even there was little; men at war did not cultivate the fields. Not to mention that the Germans, at one point, retreating, began to requisition every kind of food.<\/p>\n

Another thing I remember accurately is that as the years went by, Grandma stopped cooking many recipes from the old repertoire, above all from cucina povera, to accommodate new flavors and perhaps forget certain bitter memories.<\/p>\n

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