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Longarini di Cretone

A thick hand-rolled fresh pasta, like heavy spaghetti, made from only flour and water.

Publication note

Published as a product profile: validated sources do not fully document ingredients and/or method details.

What it is

A thick hand-rolled fresh pasta, like heavy spaghetti, made from only flour and water.

Origin place card

Cretone is a small historic hamlet of Palombara Sabina in the Sabina area northeast of Rome.

Verified history

The official Arsial sheet calls it a poor peasant dish of Cretone and notes its survival in local memory and its revival through the Sagra del Ciammellocco e dei Longarini.

Ingredients

Type 0 flour and water, traditionally served with guanciale and tomato or with lard, garlic, parsley and tomato.

Method

Method/process not fully documented in validated sources.

Ritual / calendar

Celebrated during the village sagra held in the first week of September.

Why travel for it

Longarini di Cretone is a thick hand-rolled fresh pasta, like heavy spaghetti, made from only flour and water.. In the present corpus it is documented with origin in Cretone, frazione di Palombara Sabina, Rome.

Editorial warning

This page is documentary verified from the pass3 layer. The next editorial improvement is to add one classic local recipe, one older documented version where available, and one modern household version with explicit attribution.