THICK SOUP COOK AT "LA VOLTERRANA"

Ingredients per 4 people:

    * half a cabbage,
    * a bunch of chards,
    * carrots,
    * onion,
    * herbs,
    * a pork ring or streaky bacon,
    * potatoes,
    * white dry beans and soaked the morning before.

In the morning, rinse the beans and detached them from anything else, add water, a clove of garlic and a piece of pork ring or ham and cook. In the meanwhile, brown in a pan on a low flame the streaky bacon with chopped onions, carrots and celery. Pour some water to let the onion leave its acute flavour. After half an hour, add pieces or peeled ripe tomatoes and cook on a low flame. Finally, after clear, wash and chopped the cabbage, the bunch of chards and a potato, put them into the big pan with salt, pepper and hot water, always stirring about in order not to burn it. In the meanwhile, the beans are well-cooked. Pour some puréed and some whole beans not too much strained in the thick soup. Then, cook for 3/4 hours. Cut some slices of stale home-made bread and put them in layers in the plates, with the thick soup.

WILD BOAR COOKED AT "LA VOLTERRANA"



Ingrediets per 5 people:

    * 1 Kg of wild boar,
    * garlic,
    * rosemary,
    * paprika,
    * red wine
    * tomato.

Chop, wash and strain well the meat. Put it in a saucepan with a chopped garlic, rosemary, paprika, salt and pepper. Cook on a high flame and brown the meat to half cooking. Add a little of a full-bodied red wine at various times. Complete the cooking with a fresh mashed tomatoes (to give colour) and beef stock not to let it brown too much. Match this plates with some salty black olives.