Mafalde

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Factory-made ribbons with one or both edges curled. They are boiled in abundant salted water.

Also Known As Mafaldine, signorine, trinette, ricciarelle, and sfresatine.

How Served Generally as pastasciutta, with traditional local sauces.

Where Found Widespread.

Remarks The name means literally “[Princess] Mafalda.” At the beginning of the twentieth century, a small group of pastas was dedicated to the House of Savoy, the new monarchs of Italy. Thus, we have regine, “queens,” and their diminutives, reginelle and reginette, but also mafalde and mafaldine. The latter shape could have been produced for the first time in 1902, birth year of Princess Mafalda, daughter of Victor Emanuel III, who was then on the throne.