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The traditional peasant breakfast

We resume one of our articles from quite a while back, which we would like to propose you once again with the new safe hospitality rules:

Here at Cascina La Commenda we like to step back in time, especially at breakfast time.

Each time we prepare breakfast, we think of how our grandfather would have made it, with simple but nourishing ingredients. But what was the traditional peasant breakfast like?

A brief introduction: until a few decades ago, peasants actually used to have two breakfasts. The first was light and early in the morning: a coffee and then off to milk the cows or work in the fields. The early bird catches the worm, so working was the priority.

The real breakfast was mid-morning and was the most important meal of the day. It was a small reward for the early morning’s hard work, and it had to ensure enough energy for the rest of the day.

Ingredients were simple but nutritious: bread, eggs, cheese, polenta, freshly milked milk, and everything the land could provide in the various seasons. The meal was savoury since sweet dishes had not yet arrived in country kitchens.

After such a rich breakfast, lunch was just a light snack, while dinner had to replenish the energy used during the day. Milk often returned on the table as a soup with bread, polenta or tajarin – our local homemade pasta dough in it, which was locally known here in the Peveragno area as santarèla, and we remember it well!

When we prepare breakfast for our guests, we use natural, tasty, and nourishing ingredients, just like in the old daysBread baked in our wood-fired oven, homemade cakes and biscuits, baked with our stone-ground flours, homemade jams with the fruit of our orchard and our savoury specialties, such as local cheese and cold cuts. Naturally, there is never a lack of hot drinks, fresh seasonal fruit, and juices.

We have also created a menu of our egg dishes that will be freshly cooked: from simple boiled eggs to omelettes, etc…

We have set up a large table in this period where you can see our proposals: no longer the usual buffet but a large and protected table from which we will serve you in the best-possible way”.

Come and refuel your energy with a hearty breakfast at Cascina La Commenda.

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