Frutta di Bosca

I am trying to find an Italian dessert called frutta di bosca. It was a tart like pastry with black berries and other berries on top. My wife loved this dessert at a small Italian restaurant we used to frequent before it closed several years ago.

My wife's birthday is next week and I am trying to find somewhere that carries this dessert.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

JT

jtm1631 wrote:I am trying to find an Italian dessert called frutta di bosca. It was a tart like pastry with black berries and other berries on top. My wife loved this dessert at a small Italian restaurant we used to frequent before it closed several years ago.

My wife's birthday is next week and I am trying to find somewhere that carries this dessert.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

JT

"Frutta di bosco" is used to refer to a kind of (black) berry I believe, though the word mora is the more common term for black berry to my mind; frutti di bosco is used to refer to wild berries in general. So then, frutta di bosco is not -- at least in Italian and so far as I know -- used as a name for a specific dessert pastry but rather for the fruit that was featured in the pastry.

Antonius

Heya, JT!

If it helps at all, "frutti di bosco" is a very general term that can apply to a lot of different desserts. Literally translated, it means "fruits of the forest", and refers to the mix of berries that filled your pastry. You can have cakes, gelati, pastries, etc. that incorporate frutti di bosco, but the preparation it appears you had, in a tart-like pastry, is one of the more common ones.

It might help if you look for crostata ai frutti di bosco, or perhaps torta ai frutti di bosco? I realize that isn't helping you with specific locations, but hopefully it helps to refine the search a bit

Dmnkly wrote:Heya, JT!

If it helps at all, "frutti di bosco" is a very general term that can apply to a lot of different desserts. Literally translated, it means "fruits of the forest", and refers to the mix of berries that filled your pastry. You can have cakes, gelati, pastries, etc. that incorporate frutti di bosco, but the preparation it appears you had, in a tart-like pastry, is one of the more common ones.

It might help if you look for crostata ai frutti di bosco, or perhaps torta ai frutti di bosco? I realize that isn't helping you with specific locations, but hopefully it helps to refine the search a bit

Hey Dom, I thought I said most of that already... just up there...
http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=82733#82733



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Antonius wrote:Hey Dom, I thought I said most of that already... just up there...
http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=82733#82733

Well, that's what I get for answering a phone call in the middle of writing my post.

Note to self: take too long writing, and you end up looking like an ass

Dmnkly wrote:

Antonius wrote:Hey Dom, I thought I said most of that already... just up there...
http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p=82733#82733

Well, that's what I get for answering a phone call in the middle of writing my post.

Note to self: take too long writing, and you end up looking like an ass

No, no, così grave non è!

Saluti,
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Torta frutti di bosco

jtm1631, Are you looking for this?

If so, seek one of the many local restaurants serving desserts from Bindi, a very large, international company, based in Milan, which supplies frozen Italian desserts to foodservice. Bindi has a U.S. plant in New Jersey. Italian restaurants all over town serve this particular Bindi product, often listed on menus just as "frutti di bosco" (although it's not as ubiquitous as Bindi's sorbetti hard-frozen in fruit shells -- the first time I ordered "frutti di bosco" it was because I wondered what sort of fruit rind it would come in).

IIRC, some of the various Phil Stefani restaurants offer Bindi desserts.

You can likely contact Bindi and ask about its local customers. Also, they appear to have a retail store in New Jersey, so perhaps you can mail order.

LAZ wrote:
Torta frutti di bosco

jtm1631, Are you looking for this?

If so, seek one of the many local restaurants serving desserts from Bindi, a very large, international company, based in Milan, which supplies frozen Italian desserts to foodservice. Bindi has a U.S. plant in New Jersey. Italian restaurants all over town serve this particular Bindi product, often listed on menus just as "frutti di bosco" (although it's not as ubiquitous as Bindi's sorbetti hard-frozen in fruit shells -- the first time I ordered "frutti di bosco" it was because I wondered what sort of fruit rind it would come in).

IIRC, some of the various Phil Stefani restaurants offer Bindi desserts.

You can likely contact Bindi and ask about its local customers. Also, they appear to have a retail store in New Jersey, so perhaps you can mail order.

That's it! And yes, now that you mention the name, the owner of the restaurant did use Bindi.

Thank you so much for this information.

JT

I just called Tuscany in Wheeling and they no longer carry the Bindi Torta but now make their own version.

I also called Il Mulino in Highwood and they said they will make a version for me as long as I order a day in advance. We love everything else we get at Il Mulino so I think I may go this route. It couldn't be any worse than a cake from Jewel!

Thanks again for everyone's help. I will report back here with what I get and how it is.

JT