661. Budino di Patate

Potato Pudding

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

The potato is a tuberous plant of the Solanaceae family that originated in South America, and from there it was introduced in Europe toward the end of the 16th century. However, it was not cultivated on a large scale until the beginning of the 18th century because of the stubborn opposition raised against it by the common folk, who always dislike whatever is strange and new. Gradually it won greater acceptance until it appeared regularly on the rough-hewn tables of the poor as well a