Sagra del Baldino e della Polenta Dolce

Name

Sagra del Baldino e della Polenta Dolce

Location

Faltona

Date

December 8th

contact

Municipality of Talla Via Verdi, 1 Talla tel. 0575 597512 E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Pro Loco Faltona tel. 333 2955807

Description of the Festival

Baldino or Castagnaccio is a typical cake of the Casentino is a simple traditional cake made with chestnut flour and enriched in general with raisins and pine nuts, but also with walnuts, orange peel and / or rosemary. Tasting of baldino and sweet polenta with sausages and ricotta, pancakes and desserts with chestnut flour. There will also be an exhibition of local products: honey, cheese, marmalade, flour, apples, walnuts, and the reconstruction of a characteristic and traditional corner with demonstration of old culinary practices.

BALDINO: Take the "unshelled" chestnut flour and dissolve it in cold water, taking care that the lumps are not formed, add two tablespoons of oil, a strand of "ramerino", a pinch of salt, some pine nuts and walnut kernels . It is important that the flour is very liquid and that put in the dough form a thickness of no more than half a centimeter. Cook the baldino for a long time over moderate heat. It is cooked when the surface is completely cracked.

Attention: the dates indicated may vary. We therefore invite readers to inquire by contacting the organizers of the various events to find out in which days the edition of the current year will be held