This is a very crumbly cake from Mantua.It's very good eaten with a warm zabaglione or mascarpone cream or while drinking a nice glass of wine....
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TORTA SBRISOLONA (MANTUA CRUMBLE CAKE)
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Ingredients
Switch to Cup Measures- 100 cm flour
- 100 grams polenta flour (fine, in Italy it's called floretto)
- 100 grams sugar
- 100 grams butter (softened)
- 100 grams ground almonds (coarsely ground, not bleached)
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 lemon (grated zest of)
- 1 pinch of salt
- grappa (or sambuca, 1 small glass)
Method
- Preheat the oven to 170°
- In a large bowl hand mix the flour, sugar, salt, polenta flour and butter. It must look like crumbles, a bit like mixing sweet pastry...
- Add the almonds, lemon zest, egg yolk and grappa and mix lightly. By now you should have a crumbly dough
- Put it into a 26 cm tin in an uneven fashion(don't panic, it will spread while cooking....)and put on it some whole almonds.
- Bake until it' golden,+/- 30 minutes. Let it cool and sprinkle with sugar (optional)
It keeps well, that's to say if you resist eating it immediately :-))), in an airtight tin Don't cut it with a knife but break it with hands. Enjoy
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