Strascinate

Fettuccine with Pancetta, Eggs, and Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    2

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

  • About

This pasta is supposedly the fifteenth-century progenitor of spaghetti alia carbonara. It originated in the Umbrian town of Cascia and is usually prepared with a wide noodle, such as pappardelle or lasagne. Fresh fettuccine is more easily available, but, if you are in the mood to make your own pasta, roll away and cut the sheets by hand or with a pastry or ravioli wheel.

The verb strascinare means to drag or pull along the ground. In this dish the eggs are suppo