Sweet Focaccia With Cracklings
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 500 g flour
- 200 g fine powdered sugar
- 160 g butter
- 150 g siccioli (pork cracklings)
- 60 g lard
- 4 spoonfuls Marsala or white wine
- 2 whole + 2 yolks eggs
- lemon zest
Instructions
- Form the dough, handling it minimally, and work in the crumbled cracklings.
- Grease a copper pan with lard, press the dough in with your knuckles for a knobbly surface, no more than a finger thick.
- Score square cuts with a knife point before baking, repeat them at half-bake; dust with icing sugar when done.