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Bean broth is another typical preparation for Italy and Romagna’s poor peasant cuisine.
\nThis legume was once known as the poor man’s meat. It is a vegetable source rich in protein in nature and, for this reason, made up for the lack of meat, whose flavor they also resemble.<\/p>\n
Going back to the giugetti, the sfoglia is a mix of yellow flour, which was never lacking in the homes of the poorest, and white flour, which was rarer and more precious (although it was not as refined as today’s 00), hot water and a pinch of salt.<\/p>\n
Small squares were made from the not-too-thin pasta sheet, which was cooked in a bean broth, which was then the cooking water of the beans themselves, perhaps enriched with an onion or potato.<\/p>\n
Some people served the giugetti pasta in the broth after removing some beans and mashing the others to thicken the broth. Others cooked the pasta squares in the broth after removing the beans, which, saut\u00e9ed in a pan with chopped onion and bacon, became the seasoning for the giugetti pasta.<\/p>\n
I know a little meat in a cucina povera dish seems strange.<\/strong> However, remember that in winter, people used to kill pigs.<\/strong> And so, incredibly, there could be some lard or bacon in the seasoning.<\/strong><\/h5>\nFinally, there was also a variant typical of Faenza. Here, in the past, giugetti was cooked in lightly salted milk and then served as a meal for children and older people after a long rest in the liquid.<\/p>\n
A final note on this forgotten pasta concerns the origin of the name.<\/p>\n
The word comes from the Italianization of a dialect term. And it seems related to bean broth. Giugetti is derived from giug\u00e9r<\/em>, <\/strong>which means sbruffare<\/em><\/strong> (to squirt a liquid from the mouth or nostrils). Ingiugiarsi, in the Romagnolo dialect, meant to splash giugetti broth on oneself.<\/p>\nHunger was stronger than good manners at the table of these honest but poor peasants.<\/p>\n
Buona cucina, Monica<\/p>\n
Other recipes from cucina povera of Emilia-Romagna<\/h5>\n
Bologna bean and maltagliati soup<\/strong><\/a>
\nMaltagliati pasta with tomato sauce<\/strong><\/a>
\nPassatelli in bean broth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nKeep in Touch<\/b><\/h5>\n
Hunger was stronger than good manners at the table of these honest but poor peasants.<\/p>\n
Buona cucina, Monica<\/p>\n
Other recipes from cucina povera of Emilia-Romagna<\/h5>\n
Bologna bean and maltagliati soup<\/strong><\/a>
\nMaltagliati pasta with tomato sauce<\/strong><\/a>
\nPassatelli in bean broth<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nKeep in Touch<\/b><\/h5>\n
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