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Crust Recipe |
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Ingredients: 3 cups of flour
1 teaspoon of salt
½ cup of sugar
2 sticks of butter
½ cup of water
2 eggs (beaten)
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Directions:Mix all of the crust ingredients in a mixer - You may need to add flour (or sugar :) ) |
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Ingredients: 2 uncooked eggs
½ pound 1/16 inch prosciutto (a little thicker is fine - but not thinner - so you need to make that clear to the deli person since they slice prosciutto very thin if you were ordering it for a sandwich)
4 hard boiled eggs
3½ tbsp. grated cheese
½ pound fresh cheese - this can be called Italian Easter Cheese, Farmers Cheese (this is what I find in the South), or even table cheese - it is a white cheese that may look a bit like fresh mozzarella - it doesn't come in ½ pound size - usually 15 oz.
20 dried black olives (drain first on a paper towel) - we often put more than 20 in the recipe
¾ pound ricotta (part skim and part whole milk - I think you can use all of one type)
Black pepper
4 tbsp. fresh curly parsley (Italian parsley is fine) cut up (not too fine)
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Directions:Cut the prosciutto into ½ inch to 1 inch pieces (keep separated)
Cut the Fresh Cheese into ¼ inch thick pieces (in a bowl)
Add grated cheese to the bowl
Remove pits from black olives and cut olives in half (sometimes we cut them into smaller pieces)
Mix the Prosciutto in with the Fresh and Grated Cheese.
Add the black pepper (just a few shakes)
Add the parsley
In a different bowl mix the ricotta cheese and 2 fresh beaten eggs (I wonder if they would have been beaten if they weren't fresh?)
Lightly turn Ricotta mixture into the Prosciutto mixture.
Add olives in by placing them into mixture - not sure why we do it this way
Place half of this mixture into the baking dish with the crust (You need to have made the crust dough before this step)
Slice the hard boiled eggs into 6 slices (if possible)
Lay hard boiled egg slices on mixture in the baking dish
Add the rest of the Prosciutto/Ricotta mixture on top of eggs
Put top crust on over mixture - fix the edges - make a design on top of Crust that you like.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour
Cool and serve chilled (usually the next day for Easter breakfast) |
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Servings:Probably 8 |
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Preparation
Time:If you have help 30 minutes - alone probably an hour |
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Notes: This is a fun Easter tradition. This recipe I believe comes from my Grandmother - Edith (Italia) Corino Carta.
It is a fun recipe to make with several people since there are several tasks that need to be done. Chopping parsley, cutting prosciutto, cutting olives, making crust - these can be done in parallel.
Also, you can make two recipes in parallel - but make them in parallel - meaning use 2 bowls, two sets of each thing - don't make a huge mixture in divide it in two - make two mixtures - one for each recipe.
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