641. Torta di Patate

Potato Cake

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

Although we are dealing with the humble potato here, do not scoff at this cake, which is worth making. And if your dinner guests cannot detect the plebeian origins of this cake when they taste it, conceal it from them, for they would only scoff.

Many people eat more with their imagination than with their palate. Accordingly, never mention, at least until your guests have finished eating and digesting what you have served them, foods that are considered inferior for the sole reason t