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PINZA VENETA (MEAL FLOUR CAKE FROM VENETO)

This cake is from Veneto region: It's traditionally made the Twelfth Night 's eve and it's eaten coming home from the bonfires . The cake is dense and moist, made with paysan "poor" ingredients

Ingredients

  • Vegetarian
  • 300 g meal flour(farina gialla) 
  • 200 g flour 
  • 200 g butter, softened 
  • 200 g sugar 
  • 50 g sultanas, soaked in some aniseed liqueur 
  • 10 dry figs, cut in small pieces 
  • 1 apple cu in small pieces 
  • 1 tbsp aniseeds 
  • 1 tsp baking powder

Method

  1. Put the meal and white flours in a pan with sugar. Add hot water and cook to obtain quite a stiff polenta.
  2. Keep on mixing and after 20 minutes add the butter, sultanas , liqueur, aniseeds, dry figs and apples.
  3. Cook for a further 20 minutes, always stirring the mixture
  4. Pour in a rectangular cake tin lined with wet greaseproof paper and cook in the preheated oven at 170° until brown on the top

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