Biscottini di Prosto B · Da inzuppo
Butter-heavy rounds from Prosto di Piuro in the Valchiavenna, documented from the eighteenth century and built for long keeping in mountain air. One bake, endless shelf life, made for the milk cup.
L’Atlante · Tavola N.° VI di XX
Lombardia
Butter biscuits built to keep — an eighteenth-century valley shortbread and an oval from the rice country.
A · Bis-cotto B · Da inzuppo C · Cugino
N.° I Valchiavenna · PAT
N.° II Lomellina · PAT
Offelle di Parona B · Da inzuppo
Oval soft-dry biscuits from Parona in the rice plains, their recipe attributed to the Colli sisters in the 1890s, honored with an annual sagra ever since.
N.° III Saronno
Amaretti di Saronno C · Cugino
The bitter-almond macaroon the world knows. A cousin of great distinction — but a single bake and a soul all its own.
Fonti di questa tavola
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