Stuffed Bread Morsels
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- chicken livers
- sweetbreads
- chicken or turkey gizzard
- onion, prosciutto, butter
- flour
- meat juice or broth
- egg
- Parmesan cheese
- salt, pepper, nutmeg or spices
- loaf stale bread
Instructions
- Chop chicken liver, sweetbreads, and (optional, par-boiled) gizzard fine, and cook with chopped onion, prosciutto, and butter; season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
- Add a scant teaspoon of flour, moisten with meat juice or broth, boil, then stir in beaten egg until the filling sets; finish with a pinch of Parmesan.
- Dice crustless stale bread into small pieces and spread filling generously on one side of each; flour that side half an hour before frying.
- Pour plenty of beaten egg over the pieces and fry them filling-side down until gilded.