Questa

WAFFLE SHOPS
We used to often meet them at fairs and popular festivals, Erica and Marzia and
their “traveling shop” serving humble old mountain dishes that you would
normally eat only in people’s homes. Then the two friends decided to cater for a broader
public confident that the goodness and authenticity of their cooking would be a hit. So
now here they are turning out gofri, or waffles, made according to the traditional recipe
whereby a batter of water, flour, milk, eggs, salt and brewer’s yeast is cooked with special
irons into disks with a honeycomb surface impression. Crisp and soft at the same time,
gofri are filled with cheese and cured meats or with jams and the like. Another of Enrica
and Marzia’s specialties is cajette, typical of the Val Chisone, balls of grated potato mixed
with bread, cheese, eggs, lardo, onion and garlic, which are boiled in water and drizzled
with melted butter. Recently the two friends opened a gofreria in Via Savoia, in Pinerolo.
So now we don’t have to wait for village festivals any more.
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