Cornmeal biscuits called paste di meliga, dipped in a glass of Barolo wine, were once the classic ending to a typical Piedmontese meal.
Though they are still found in all the region’s cafés, not to mention its pastry shops, they are never prepared as they used to be, immediately after kneading the bread dough, mixing wheat flour and cornmeal, butter, eggs and sugar (and sometimes lemon zest, vanilla or honey), then forming different shapes, circles, oblongs or half-moons.
The biscuits should be yellow, fragrant and crunchy, dissolving in the mouth, neither greasy nor sugary, with the graininess of the stone-ground cornmeal clearly perceptible.
Season: the product is commercially available throughout the year.
Presidium cornmeal biscuits (paste di meliga) are made according to tradition using a mixture of wheat flour and cornmeal, butter, fresh eggs and sugar. The dough is kneaded into round, oblong or crescent shapes. Yellow and crunchy, these biscuits melt in the mouth without being greasy or cloying, leaving a lingering toasted flavour. The stone-ground corn gives the biscuits a pleasant graininess.
Production area: Monregalese Municipalities, Province of Cuneo
Seasonality: The product is commercially available throughout the year.
The producers are gathered in the
Consorzio per la tutela e la promozione delle paste di meliga del Monregalese, Mondovì (Cn), Via Vigevano 16, tel. +39 0174 43818, info@lepastedimeliga.it, www.lepastedimeliga.it
L’angolino di Giovanna Chionetti, Villanova Mondovì (Cn), Via Marconi 36, tel. +39 0174597600 / +39 3406071561, info@angolinopasticceria.it, www.angolinopasticceria.it
Pasticceria Cagna, Garessio (Cn), Via Vittorio Emanuele II 89, tel. +39 0174 81076 / +39 3331667508, info@pasticceriacagna.com, www.pasticceriacagna.com
Monica Chinea, Pamparato (Cn), Val Casotto, Via Santa Libera 16, tel. +39 0174351183 / +39 3490876145, chineamonica@alice.it
La Nicchia dei Sapori, di Maurizio Barberis e Marilisa Varvello, San Giacomo di Roburent (Cn), Via Sant’Anna, 71
tel. +39 333 4259107 / +39 334 2913511, barberis_maurizio@libero.it
Margherita Quaglia, Montaldo Mondovì (Cn), Via Corsagliola 4, tel. +39 0174 227076 /+39 347 3099260, info@lepastedimeliga.net
Il Forno Michelis, Mondovì (Cn), Via Vigevano 20, tel. +39 0174 43818 / +39 335 6257010, info@michelis.it, www.michelis.it
La cantina con gli antichi sapori, di Mauro Nasi, Montaldo di Mondovì (Cn), Frazione Corsaglia 16, tel. +39 0174349109 /+39 345 7007999, info@ristorantealbergocorsaglia.it
Last modified: 19 Jan 2022
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