Ingredients: Durum wheat semolina. Part of the family of short pasta with diagonal cut, smooth, the Penne Lisce are among the most well-known and therefore most versatile pasta shapes in the kitchen. The absence of ridges is compensated by a surprising softness that offers sublime sensations to the palate. Delicate and refined, they maximize aromas, flavors and scents. The term Penne refers, in the Italian language, to the goose quill that was historically used for writing and was cut diagonally to obtain a fine point. The shape, obtained from a tube of pasta, smooth or ridged, of variable length, features the characteristic diagonal cut typical of a writing pen. Penne is one of the few pasta shapes with a certain date of birth: in 1865, in fact, a pasta maker from San Martino d'Albaro (Genoa), Giovanni Battista Capurro, requested and obtained a patent for a diagonal cutting machine. The patent was important because it allowed for cutting the fresh pasta into pen shape without crushing it, in lengths varying between 3 and 5 centimeters (half penne or penne). It is written in the document stored at the Central State Archive in Rome: “Until today it was not possible to achieve the diagonal cut except with manual scissors, a method that, besides being too slow and expensive, presented the drawback of producing an irregular cut and crushing the pasta."
Ingredients: Durum wheat semolina. Part of the family of short pasta with diagonal cut, smooth, the Penne Lisce are among the most well-known and therefore most versatile pasta shapes in the kitchen. The absence of ridges is compensated by a surprising softness that offers sublime sensations to the palate. Delicate and refined, they maximize aromas, flavors and scents. The term Penne refers, in the Italian language, to the goose quill that was historically used for writing and was cut diagonally to obtain a fine point. The shape, obtained from a tube of pasta, smooth or ridged, of variable length, features the characteristic diagonal cut typical of a writing pen. Penne is one of the few pasta shapes with a certain date of birth: in 1865, in fact, a pasta maker from San Martino d'Albaro (Genoa), Giovanni Battista Capurro, requested and obtained a patent for a diagonal cutting machine. The patent was important because it allowed for cutting the fresh pasta into pen shape without crushing it, in lengths varying between 3 and 5 centimeters (half penne or penne). It is written in the document stored at the Central State Archive in Rome: “Until today it was not possible to achieve the diagonal cut except with manual scissors, a method that, besides being too slow and expensive, presented the drawback of producing an irregular cut and crushing the pasta."
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