Bolognese Sweet Bread
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 500 g wheat flour
- 180 g icing sugar
- 180 g butter
- 70 g zibibbo raisins
- 50 g pine nuts
- 30 g candied citron
- 8 g cream of tartar
- 4 g bicarbonate of soda
- 2 eggs
- 1 dl milk
Instructions
- Heap sugar and flour with a well; add butter, eggs and warm milk holding the cream of tartar and bicarbonate.
- Knead to a homogeneous dough, then work in the pine nuts, candied citron and raisins evenly.
- Shape into two shuttle-form loaves just over a finger high, glaze with egg yolk, and bake at once.