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pasta frolla

/PAH-stah FROHL-lah/
[Italian]

Short crust pastry (US: shortdough), made with flour, sugar and eggs and a high proportion of butter to make it short. This type of pastry is much used in the cooking of Sicily and may be flavoured with orange zest.

pasta genovese

/PAH-stah jeh-noh-VEH-seh/
[Italian]

Plain sponge Genoise cake, with equal proportions of flour, butter, eggs and sugar and sometimes flavoured with grated lemon peel.

pasta glutinata

/PAH-stah gloo-tee-NAH-tah/
[Italian]

Gluten added to dough which is cooked in a broth.

pasta grattugiata

/PAH-stah graht-too-JYAH-tah/
[Italian]

"Grated pasta." Pasta dough dried and grated into small grains, after which it can be cooked in soups, like royale, or as a cuscus like pasta.

pasta in brodo

/PAH-stah een BROH-doh/
[Italian]

"Pasta in broth." Small pasta for soups.

pasta in forma

/PAH-stah een FOHR-mah/
[Italian]

"Pasta in a mould." Pasta baked in a mould, usually layered with other foods and turned out for serving.

pasta lunga

/ah-lee-sahn-TSAHS/
[Italian]

This essentially means 'long pasta' and may refer to any of the long vermicellis, spaghettis, macaronis etc. In Sardinia it is a name for alistanzas. This is a pasta from Sardinia which consists of a thin sheet of pasta dough is cut into irregular shapes with a toothed wheel and then hung to dry. It is then boiled in water or broth and served with ragù of some kind it's almost a kind of Sardinian lasagne..

pasta Maddalena

/PAH-stah mahd-deh-LEH-nah/
[Italian]

Plain Genoise cake. Is this a Madeleine as made famous by Proust?

pasta margherita

/PAH-stah mahr-gheh-REE-tah/
[Italian]

A sponge cake made with potato flour.

pasta mezza frolla

/PAH-stah MEHTS-tsah FROHL-lah/
[Italian]

Short crust pastry made with milk instead of water.