A good address to remember
Today no politics, italian or american. In poor Italy and confused, it is somewhat cold, but sun is shinning and life is still beatiful, also with problems.
This is the reason of invitation, if you pass from Rome, to have a look to the restaurant of my friend, Al Piccolo in Via Santamaura 65, Prati Rome. You may see a preview here Al Piccolo, or here Al Piccolo.
He and his little staff are working with passion and art to accommodate all in a beautiful and relaxing place, giving you all the best of italian kitchen. Think his care arrives to cook your bread personally - this is true class - you may imagine the rest.
What can I add? Oh yes, let you try and if you’ll have anything to complain, ask me satisfaction.
A new cake for next Sunday
Let me give to english speaking women the only recipe I know for a different cake. They may have a great success in family next Sunday. It’s an ancient recipe from Gonzaga court, the dukes of Mantua: the “sbrisolona”.
Take:
- 2 hg of wheat flour;
- 2 hg of maize flour;
- 2 hg of sugar;
- 2 hg of minced almonds, not too much thinly;
- 2 hg of butter:
- 2 two egg yolks;
- 1 grated peel of lemon;
- 1 vanillin phial if you like this flavour;
The classic recipe has 1 hg of butter and 1 hg of lard but 2 hg of butter are lighter. There is no ferment: it’s not an error, sbrisolona is not a soft cake.
You must mix well all ingredients in a big bowl; don’t worry if you don’t get a dough as pain, it’s right, all will arrange in oven. It’s important you mix very well, above all the butter.
Distribute the farinose mix in a broad and low cake tin, useful a sheet of oven paper. Get it in oven for an hour at 180° Celsius, that it 356° Fahrenheit, faraway from heating element. Useful to cover with an aluminium sheet.
The cake will be served cold, it keeps for many days. Don’t try to cut the cake in slices, you must break it in bits with a parmisan knife. It produces many crumbs, that is the meaning of “sbrisolona”.
It’s good alone, but also with “vin santo”, a white wine “passito”, that is wine made from dried grapes.
