Italian Food Recipes

This is the traditional Italian recipe of Sbrisolona that is tha cake typical of Mantua, its name describes the consistency hard and crumbly of the cake that might not be cut with the knife but should be broken in big irregular pieces. The origin of this delicious Italian dessert aren’t known but they are certainly old and this is a dessert use most of all in the peasant houses. This is a cake that you can preserve for long time and it is excellent dipped in a glass of wine. The preparation of this recipe is simple: you should mix all together flour, yellow thin flour, sugar, chopped walnuts, grated peel of lemon, yolks, lard and butter. The dough that you obtain kneading the mixture might not be homogeneous but friable. The cooking takes about 1 hour and at the end of the cooking the cake appears soft instead when it gets cold it becomes dry and crumbly.

INGREDIENTS (for 8 – 10 people):
250 g of Flour
200 g of Yellow Flour
200 g of Sugar
1 Lemon
2 Yolks
2 g of Vanillina
120 g of Butter
100 g of Lard
200 g of Walnuts already without peel

PREPARATION TIME: 20 minutes

COOKING TIME: 1 hour

WINE: Malvasia

PREPARATION
Chop the walnuts not too finely,

place in a bowl the two flour, the chopped walnuts, the sugar, the vanillina, the grated peel of lemon (only the yellow part)

and mix all together. Then add the yolk

and mix and at the end add the lard and 100 g of butter in pieces.

Knead the mixture: it should not become too homogeneous on the contrary it makes big lumps

that you pour in a baking pan of 24 cm of diameter previously buttered.

Bake at 180° C for about 1 hour then take it out from the oven and let sbrisolona warmed.
This is the result:

BUON APPETITO!