Biscotti Etc — Complete Biscotti Guide
L’Atlante · Tavola N.° III di XX

Umbria

Tozzetti dunked in smoked vin santo — the green heart keeps the Tuscan technique and changes the wine.

Varietà documentate · 3 Si inzuppa in · Vin santo affumicato
La tassonomia — A · Bis-cotto B · Da inzuppo C · Cugino
N.° I
Tozzetti umbri A · Bis-cotto

The same twice-baked technique as their Lazio cousins, typically with anise and local nuts — and dunked in Umbria’s own smoked vin santo, a wine that exists almost nowhere else.

PAT regionale
N.° II
Mostaccioli umbri B · Da inzuppo

Must-based spice biscuits of the Perugia hills, carrying the medieval fair lineage that runs the length of the peninsula under a dozen names.

Perugia · fiere
N.° III
Fave dei morti C · Cugino

Little almond "beans of the dead" for early November — baked once, one entry in Italy’s crowded November calendar of biscuits for the dead.

novembre

Fonti di questa tavola

The atlas cites Italian primary and regional sources throughout. Claims resting on tradition rather than documents are phrased as claims; entries awaiting confirmation say so on their face.


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