- Dough
- Breadcrumb/matzo
- Made with
- Small balls
- Cooked
- In soup or tomato sauce
- Size
- About 4 cm across
Not known yet We don’t yet have a photo we can use, a written story or a recipe for Cugoli. What we do have is below, with its sources.
- Region
- Italy
- First record
- 1928 · Modern & global
- Fold
- Ball
- Cooked
- In soup or tomato sauce
Where
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From Venetian Jews.
Pin · Venice Ghetto
Evidence
Fairly sure. A dated text records it by 1928.
We list 5 sources: 3 dated texts, 2 secondary. How grading works.
First record Marconi in Il Folklore italiano, 1928, p. 416: "Cugoli (Kugel)", beef fat, egg and breadcrumbs cooked in the beans (D); first found, read as a search snippet only
Strongest sources
- D
List of dishes of the Venetian Jews: '5. Polenta con grasso d'oca, zucchero e cannella. 6. Cugoli (Kugel) = Grasso di manzo unito ad uova e pane grattuggiato; si cuoce poi nei fagiuoli (insieme al polpettone di cui…
List of dishes of the Venetian Jews: '5. Polenta con grasso d'oca, zucchero e cannella. 6. Cugoli (Kugel) = Grasso di manzo unito ad uova e pane grattuggiato; si cuoce poi nei fagiuoli (insieme al polpettone di cui parleremo più sotto, costituisce uno dei cibi meno digeribili della cucina di cui trattiamo). 7. Gribole = Pezzetti di pelle d'oca fritti in padella nel loro grasso.' The running head of the page reads '416 ENZO MARCONI'. The title of Marconi's article was not visible. Read as a Google Books full-text search snippet (books feed); the page image was not viewed. - D
Jewish Flavours of Italy: A Family Cookbook, recipe 'Venetian Matzah Balls'
Recipe headnote: 'This dish, also called gnocchi all'ebraica or Jewish-style dumplings, comes from Venice, where there was once a thriving Ashkenazi community.' The word cugoli is derived from German Kugel ('ball');…
Recipe headnote: 'This dish, also called gnocchi all'ebraica or Jewish-style dumplings, comes from Venice, where there was once a thriving Ashkenazi community.' The word cugoli is derived from German Kugel ('ball'); Italian Jews normally use breadcrumbs or other ingredients instead of matzah except at Passover. - D
Dizionario del dialetto veneziano
Boerio's Venetian dictionary has no dumpling under this word: 'COGOLI e CUOGOLI, s. m. Ciottoli ...' (pebbles), 'COGOLO' a fishing net; no 'cugolo/cugoli' food entry and no 'gnocchi all'ebraica' in the OCR text. (The…
Boerio's Venetian dictionary has no dumpling under this word: 'COGOLI e CUOGOLI, s. m. Ciottoli ...' (pebbles), 'COGOLO' a fishing net; no 'cugolo/cugoli' food entry and no 'gnocchi all'ebraica' in the OCR text. (The scan read is catalogued on archive.org under Boerio's dictionary; edition year not checked.)
Show all 5 sources
- S
The standard study of Judeo-Venetian quotes Marconi's definition under the word and adds: '(Marconi 416; cfr. anche Zorzi 160). È uno dei cibi tradizionali della cucina ebraica veneziana, diffuso specialmente tra i ceti…
The standard study of Judeo-Venetian quotes Marconi's definition under the word and adds: '(Marconi 416; cfr. anche Zorzi 160). È uno dei cibi tradizionali della cucina ebraica veneziana, diffuso specialmente tra i ceti più bassi della popolazione del Ghetto. Ancuo gavemo magnà i fazioi coi ...'. Read as a Google Books full-text search snippet (books feed); the page image was not viewed. - S
Venezia in cucina; Tradizioni ebraiche in Italia
Later descriptions in the same words: 'cugoli, sorta di polpette di farina e pane grattugiato, impastati con grasso di manzo e uova, e cotti comunemente ...' (Carla Coco, Venezia in cucina, 2011); 'cugoli, grasso di…
Later descriptions in the same words: 'cugoli, sorta di polpette di farina e pane grattugiato, impastati con grasso di manzo e uova, e cotti comunemente ...' (Carla Coco, Venezia in cucina, 2011); 'cugoli, grasso di manzo unito alle uova e al pane grattuggiato, cotto poi nei fagioli' (A. Castaldini, Tradizioni ebraiche in Italia, 1999). Read as a Google Books full-text search snippet (books feed); the page image was not viewed.
Notes from the research
Italian–Ashkenazi blend (Silvia Nacamulli).
Family E