Assabesi

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Factory-made small pasta of various sizes, generally cooked in broth.

Also Known As Bengasini, tripolini, and abissini (referring to the Libyan cities of Benghazi and Tripoli and to Abyssinia).

How Served In broth.

Where Found Widespread.

Remarks Between the end of the nineteenth century and the first de cades of the twentieth century, many requests for patents on machines for the factory production of dry pastas were deposited at the Ministry of Agriculture, Industry, and Commerce. Today, these patents are kept in the Italian State Archives. This was also the time when the pasta dies in imaginative shapes were proliferating.