Thread: Madia - Sicilian Dough Tray

Thanks for this. I remember my grandmother telling me about making bread communally like this when she was a young girl in Sicily in the early 1900's. She taught me to make bread when I was a child in the 1960's and here I am still doing it. Today, in fact! Good memories.

That style was also traditionally used for hand mixing / kneading mince and seasoning in salami making. My folks have a jumbo sized variant, approx 1500mm L x 600mm W x 250 D, but sans the lid, for that very purpose. Supported on trestles, it will hold 100kg of pork mince.

Beautiful.

What a beauty & thanks for the lead re pizza napoletana fatta in casa! Very good explanation on making pizza dough.
Makes me hungry just typing it !!!!

Cheers,
Yvan

Originally Posted by Salv

That style was also traditionally used for hand mixing / kneading mince and seasoning in salami making. My folks have a jumbo sized variant, approx 1500mm L x 600mm W x 250 D, but sans the lid, for that very purpose. Supported on trestles, it will hold 100kg of pork mince.

Where do they source the casings?

Cheers,
Yvan

Thanks all. I did originally make a prototype out of some radiata pine to work out the angles. For the prototype I used a drop in base but went for a planted base on the final version.

The pine was offcuts from some stair stringers and surprisingly wasn't very stable, warping a bit after being sized and assembled, particularly the base. I couldn't find any suitable Hoop Pine which I wanted to use for the final version but we've used the Jacaranda one a couple of times and it is looking very solid with no sign of movement so far.

Forgot to mention, nice work, Fuzzie.

Hmmm.....some of the aunties would love one of these as a gift.