fisco cooking consisted in putting water, white beans, salt and aromas into a bottle called “fiasco”, the famous traditional bottle used also nowadays for the Chianti wine. It was then hermetically sealed with a cork and laid in the chimney under hot cinders during all the night. The day after the “fiasco” was broken and the beans had a fantastic smell, in this manner they had also saved wood. Essentially it was the same proceeding of the pressure pot, that nowadays is very useful for cooking this excellent speciality. But if you have a chimney you can try …