Equal parts curds or cottage cheese and cooked meat (chicken, pork or veal) Grated cheese 1 egg Grated lemon peel Nutmeg, allspice, salt
Grind the meat very fine and make a highly seasoned mixture of it and all the other ingredients. The ground meat may be sautéed in a little butter or drippings before it is mixed with the other ingredients to improve the flavor. Cut rounds measuring about three inches in diameter from a thin sheet of paste made according to the recipe on page 20. Place a spoonful of the filling in the middle of each circle of paste. Fold over and moisten the edge of the paste with the finger dipped in water to make it stay securely closed. These _cappelletti_ should be cooked in chicken or turkey broth until the paste is tender, and served with this broth as a soup.
This is a time-honored Christmas dainty in Italy.
1 lb. rice A medium sized onion 4 tablespoons butter, or oil Salt Curry powder, 1/2 teaspoon Grated cheese
Chop the onion very fine, or put it through a meat grinder. Put it to cook in the butter, until it is soft and yellow. Wash the rice and add it to the onion and butter, stirring constantly so that it will not stick. Salt it and add boiling water, a little at a time, until the rice is cooked tender, yet not too soft, with each grain distinct. Dissolve the curry powder in a tablespoon of cold water and add to the rice. Take from the fire and serve very hot after mixing into it a handful of grated cheese. The delicacy of this dish is lost if it is overcooked or allowed to cool.
1 lb. rice The giblets of a chicken Cooking oil or chicken fat 1 egg Chicken broth Onion Grated cheese Salt and pepper
The broth for this _Risotto_ may be made by cooking together the giblets, neck and tips of wings of a chicken which is to be roasted, or it may be made from the remnants of roast fowl.
Boil the rice until it is about half done in salted water. Then let the water cook away and begin adding the broth, in such quantity that the rice will be nearly dry when it is tender. Fry the chopped onion in the oil or fat. Some mushrooms cut up small are a very good addition to this "soffritto." Mince the chicken giblets and add to the onion. Stir this mixture into the rice. Add grated cheese and a beaten egg just as the rice is taken from the fire.