Pizza Rustica

Pie Crust:
4 lb. flour
8 eggs
1 tbsp. melted Crisco
4 cups water (approximately)
1 tsp. sugar
1 pinch salt
2 tbsp. baking powder
10 tin pans

Pie Filling:
4 lb. dry sweet sausage, peeled and cut into small cubes
1-1/2 lb. hot dry sausage, peeled and cut into small cubes
1-1/2 lb. Genoa salami, cut into small cubes
4 slices ((1/4-inch) each) prosciutto ham, cut into small cubes
5 lb. ricotta cheese
3 pieces (whole) basket cheese, cut into small cubes
2 pieces (whole) atomb cheese, cut into small cubes
10 egg yolks
12 whole eggs
4 dozen hard boiled eggs
1-1/2 cups fresh parsley
1-1/2 lb. locatelli Romano grated cheese
Pepper, to taste

Directions:

Crust:
Mix dry ingredients. Add wet ingredients. Mix well, dough should fall off hands. Roll dough into tube and cover with a damp towel until ready for use so dough doesn't dry up.

Preparation:
Mix all filling ingredients except hard-boiled eggs. Lightly flour tin pans. With a rolling pin, roll out dough thinly for bottom of pie then place in pan. Line bottom and sides of pan with slices of hard-boiled egg. Add ingredients but do not push down. Line top of pie with hard-boiled eggs. Roll out another thin piece of dough and place on top of pie. Cut off excess dough then pinch edges. Brush top of pie with egg wash, then put fork holes in top of pie.

Bake in preheated oven at 375°F until top is golden brown, approximately 45 minutes.

Comments from Tommy Sharkey :

This recipe is great!!

User Reviews:

'Atomb" cheese is likely "Toma" cheese. Italian immigrants, like my grandmother, would call it "Toomba" cheese...or "a toomba" - which is why you likely have "Atomb." My grandmother and mother would make pizzza rustica with Toma cheese (as a substitute for Mozzarella). It's a cow's milk cheese from the Piedmont region of Italy. You can usually find it in an Italian Salumeria or gourmet shop. The basket cheese is also a cow's milk cheese...also called farmer's cheese (and I believe formegatto or formagatto - not sure of the spelling). It's used as a subsitute, I would imagine, for the ricotta cheese.

Hope I helped out.

Submitted by louis2d on December 04, 2006

That is a good question. I've never heard of atomb cheese and cannot find any information about it around the Internet. And what's basket cheese?

Most of the time I've seen this recipe it calls for ricotta, mozzarella and romano. Maybe you could use those instead?

Submitted by ryansnyder on December 02, 2005

Can't rate. Haven't made it yet.

What is atomb cheese??

Submitted by dhrw on December 02, 2005

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