Pizza Rustica

Time

Yield

10 pies

Ingredients

Ingredients

Pie Crust

4 lbs. flour
8 eggs
1 tbsp. melted Crisco
4 cups water (approximately)
1 tsp. sugar
1 dash salt
2 tbsp. baking powder
10 tin pans

Pie Filling

4 lbs. dry sweet sausage, peeled and cut into sm. cubes
1-1/2 lb. hot dry sausage, peeled and cut into sm. cubes
1-1/2 lb. Genoa salami, cut into sm. cubes
4 slices prosciutto ham, cut into sm. cubes
5 lbs. ricotta cheese
3 pieces basket cheese, cut into sm. cubes
2 pieces atomb cheese, cut into sm. cubes
10 egg yolks
12 whole eggs
4 dozen hard boiled eggs
1-1/2 cup fresh parsley
1-1/2 lb. locatelli Romano grated cheese
Pepper, to taste

Instructions

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.

Author's Comments

This recipe is great!!

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5 Recipe Reviews

Margaret Sparano

Margaret Sparano reviewed Pizza Rustica on April 27, 2000

I tried this particular receipe & it is the best that I ever Tasted.
Eddie Masessa

Eddie Masessa reviewed Pizza Rustica on May 3, 2000

I don't care about this rustic pizza, what I want to know is... What happened to your MEATBALLS?
dhrw

dhrw reviewed Pizza Rustica on February 13, 2006

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

What is atomb cheese??
ryansnyder

ryansnyder reviewed Pizza Rustica on February 13, 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?
louis2d

louis2d reviewed Pizza Rustica on April 6, 2007

'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.