Gnocco

Ingredients For homemade, wheat flour or durum-wheat flour and water; but also flour mixed with potatoes, sometimes eggs, and various other ingredients. For factory made, durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Bite-sized dumpling formerly made of flour and water, and probably of irregular shape because it was torn. Stale bread was subsequently added to the original dough, and, much later, potatoes. The gnocco was then enriched with other ingredients, such as ricotta, different flours, vegetables, or often a mixture.