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#45 of italian forgotten classics: Smacafam trentino.
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#45 of italian forgotten classics: Smacafam trentino.



#45 Forgotten Italian Classics: Smacafam (Trentino)

Born in the Trentino mountains, smacafam was made to “beat hunger,” a simple mix of flour, fat, and sausage baked until golden and rich enough to feed a crowd. I love how it fills the kitchen, because the smell of sausage and bread mixing with cold mountain air is umbetable. Once a Carnival pie, now it’s just as comforting baked in small portions, still warm from the oven after a long day outside. Hearty, rustic, and honest, it’s the evidence that even the humblest dishes can fill both belly and spirit.

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Welcome to Italian Forgotten Classic, where Italian food becomes more than just pasta and pizza. Today we are in Tantino to meet a dish with a funny name, Desmaka. In dialect, it means the hunger bitter. That’s exactly what they did for poor families in the 1800s when the pantry was almost empty. They mixed flour, milk, and lard into a simple butter, then dropped in bits of lucanica sausage. Heaven feeling, perfect for carnival right before Lent. It wasn’t pretty, but it filled bellies and kept the family going. Too plain for restaurants and too heavy for modern taste, smack stayed mostly in villages and family kitchens. This dish is a reminder of how people made joy out of scraps, but also has the power to bring in a little montine humor and heart to your own table. of your album.

39 Comments

  1. @largegroupofmales

    What I love about so many of these dishes is how clearly utilitarian they are, old school “struggle meals” essentially, and you can just tell they’re absolutely bomb

  3. @DecemberForge

    This is exactly the kind of thing I would expect to see in much colder climates. I'm surprised to find it in a "temperate" country like Italy. Incredible!!

  4. @ChristIsYHWH

    If I'm not mistaken λουκάνικα (loukánika) means sausages in Greek, so this recipe has sausages sausage in it, I love it.

  5. @jamesanthony5874

    Any idea how well these freeze? Because they look good but there's no way I'd eat a full batch before they turned without freezing them

  22. @francescacorra6983

    In veneto (Vicenza) il macafame e' una torta fatta con pane vecchio ammollato in latte o acqua 1 mela 1 uovo 1 cucchiaio di zucchero e uvetta…

  25. @EvD2905

    sei 'unico che porta sempre piatti veramente mai visti neanche da noi. Dirti bravo sarebbe riduttivo

  27. @nihalzeor8085

    In veneto we have the "Macafame", which sounds almost the same, but it's a completely different dish (being a dessert), but it means the same as the trentino version, since it's made from stale bread!

  34. @emanuelebelle3943

    You’re so refreshing, I’m so sick and tired of Italian chefs making traditional Italian cuisine look like we only eat tomatoes and basil.
    You’re the one try Italian channel that doesn’t make the same four recipes

  37. @islindrVt

    Da trentino, spammato il link a tutti i miei amici esteri
    Grazie per questa serie, veramente bella, ho anche conosciuto qualche ricetta nuova da regioni che non ho mai visitato <3
    Smacafam for life!