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Ingredients 40 chestnuts, roasted & shelled
Directions Take forty good chestnuts and roast them over a slow fire. Do not allow them to become dried up or colored.
Notes The recipe was first published "Simple Italian Cookery" by Antonia Isola (New York: Harpers Brothers, 1912). For the complete copyright-free text visit www.archive.org..... Poem on plate: in French: Je marche a toi/ je titube a toi/ Je brule de toi. English translation: I walk towards, I stagger towards you/ I am burning for you. |