Where can I find a pasta tool my grandmother calls a “troc”?
Joe P., Poughquaq, NY This question intrigued me so much, I spent a lot of time researching, but have come up with scant information. I researched the tool, under pasta making tools, rolling pins and cutting tools in The WellTooled Kitchen, by Fred Bridges and Jean F. Tibbetts. Under cutting tools, I came up with an axleheld pastry cutter known as the “lattice cutter”. This cuts dough into even strips of dough used for crisscross lattice pie toppings; I guess you could use it for pasta, but it certainly does not go by the name “troc” (or something like that). Then I looked a rolling pins and came up with several odd looking ones which looked a bit like the one you describe but are known as “lefse” “hardtack” and “basketweave” rolling pins. The first two are designed to score or notch Scandinavian flatbread doughs and the last one is to use on sheets of marzipan. The “lefse” has a “long ribbed face” and “scores the surface of a flatbread dough so that it rises evenly when cooked.” The “
