Ancient Recipes: Italian Gnocchi

This recipe was created over 900 years ago by the first ever recorded naturopath, Hildegard of Bingen, who believed in a simple eating regiment to good health. 

Ingredients:

• 4 cups milk
• 7 tbsps butter
• a pinch of salt and pepper
• ¼  cup nutmeg
• 1  ¼  cups spelt flour
• 2 eggs, beaten 
• 1  ¼  cups Gruyere cheese, grates
• ¼ tsp cumin
• Grated parmesan cheese

Directions:

Bring the milk, butter, salt, pepper, and nutmeg to a boil.  Add the flour, all at once to the boiling seasoned milk, stirring vigorously to form a thick mixture.  Remove from the heat.  Add the eggs, Gruyere cheese, and cumin.  Spread dough onto a buttered cookie sheet and cut into small circles, using a cookie cutter or small glass.  Coat both sides with parmesan cheese.  Arrange and overlap gnocchi in a buttered baking dish.  Dot with butter and bake in a 425º F oven for 10 minutes.  

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