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Cookery - Recipe # 1

first recipe that will open the kitchen section, why get off the beetle, you gotta eat. Since we live in a country that seems to travel backwards, it seems to me right from the sweet. Typically Tuscan, who mistreated them as "nooks and almonds" take these fantastic biscuits in fact the name of the Tuscan city that gave them the origins, Lawn, and is called "biscotti di Prato" (pronounced Prao). Here are offered in their most classic version, homemade, and I assure you that they have nothing to envy to the well known "brick" of a famous biscuit Prato.
Below is a quick report of culinary evening last night which made it possible to realize in about 40 minutes almost 1 kg of biscuits. It is part of the recipe for your convenience:
- 500 gr. white flour / 500 gr. sugar / 250 gr. of unpeeled almonds / 3 whole eggs + 2 yolks / 1 tablespoon baking powder / salt

Put the flour in the center of a bowl and add sugar, 2 eggs, 2 egg baking powder and salt (a pinch). It works the obtained by adding all the almonds and the flour mixture is a board where we are going to form "loaves."

The amount of ingredients, can make 3-4 parts, with a ladle prepare them one at a time that worked on the flour, do not attack.

Put the oven to 175 °, lies on the baking parchment on which to lay the loaves are obtained, taking care to distance 5cm from each other:


as (cooking) dilate slightly ...


Prohibited brush the dough with egg before baking (the "gloss" on these cookies would not be appropriate). Freshly baked, and still warm, cut loaves in cross section.

Distendeteli then on a large plate to cool

Once cool, a good glass of Vin Santo and dry on ...
exhaustive forget mascarpone cream, mousse, cream and other crap like that to accompany the cookies. Second, but not least, forget the variant chocolate "," the candy ", etc. .. are" tourist "and Prato have nothing.

PS the photos are not great, but cookies .... eheheheh