"ViLco" > wrote in message
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> Christopher M. wrote:
>
>>> you go to a place that sells freshly made pizzas and ask them to
>>> make you a calzone
>
>> People don't typically put tomato sauce in a calzone with ham. I
>> think it's more like a stromboli.
>
> In my region's pizzerie calzone comes in two ways: normale and farcito
> (stuffed). They're both stuffed, the first with tomato, mozzarella and
> prosciutto cotto, the latter has the same and is enriched with some
> mushroom and little pickled artichokes, sometimes using salusage instead
> of prosc. cotto. The they sprinkle a bit of tomato sauce over it and bake
> it.
> Calzone has an advantage over pizza: it cools down much slowly.
> --
> ViLco
> Let the liquor do the thinking
I've never been to Italy but the NY style pizza place near me (with a wood
fired oven) bakes stuffed calzones with tomato and cheeses. It's folded
over, hand tossed dough.

Jill