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White pork lard with soft scoop traces in a bowl.

Lard

Strutto is one of the fats used for piadina dough; the consortium’s recipe also offers olive oil as an alternative.

Italian name
Strutto
In the recipe
Fat in piadina dough

At the table

For piadina, mix the chosen fat into flour with water and salt, then rest and roll the dough before cooking. This recipe allows lard or extra-virgin olive oil.

Choose one version and keep its proportions, rather than treating the fats as equal in every recipe.

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  • J.K. Adams Maple French Rolling Pin

    For rolling the rested piadina dough into thin rounds.

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