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The toc, flat typical of the tradition bellagina, prepared once came only on the occasion of marriages and baptisms, the farmers used what them same produced: flour, butter and the cheese drawn by the milk of their cows. Sees the notable quantity of butter and cheese necessary, the toc it was a rich dish, proper for to celebrate the special occasions.
It put on the copper pot with the ready tooc to the center of the place and the guests you they sat him around circle, as he does today still.

The recipe of the toc is: two jots of butter, two jots of cheese and half liter of water for person; it needs besides to use the home flour of maize, other flour son-in-laws are not proper in how much they don't absorb well the butter and the cheese.
Fundamental it is to dose well the heat so that the polenta you don't stick to the copper pot. When this last is cooked, it adds us the butter and then the cheese, cut to bits, amalgamating them little by little, continually stirring again the everything with the rodech. If a passage is wrong him, the toc releases the butter and is not more eatable. It is not easy, only to an expert he succeds. Finished the consummation and emptied the copper pot, he proceeds to the preparation of the ragell: the basic ingredient is the red wine to which is added, cinnamon, nails of carnation, nutmeg, sugar, of the bark of orange and lemon grated and an apple cut asunder. And' the fact that the copper pot is not perfectly cleaned snoop and that they leaves on the walls the leftovers of the toc, which will give the characteristic taste to the drink.
The teacher of the toc puts again therefore the copper pot on the fire with the wine and the spices and to this point, thanks to the heat, the contained alcohol in the wine evaporates and sets on fire him creating a scenografico effect of copper pot in flames. Exhausted the alcoholic vapors, the ragell is ready for the consummation. The copper pot is removed therefore from the fire and put again to the center of the place where, using itself a wood ladle, the drink it is drawn.
Versed still fumante in a wood bowl, it makes him the braid of the same one among the various table companion again sat in circle around the copper pot: an only bowl for all from which it is sipped to turn. And it is in this rite, in this to share that, favorite also from the powers of the wine, the socialization of the group reaches the top.