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.
Tozzetti dunked in smoked vin santo — the green heart keeps the Tuscan technique and changes the wine.
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.
Must-based spice biscuits of the Perugia hills, carrying the medieval fair lineage that runs the length of the peninsula under a dozen names.
Little almond "beans of the dead" for early November — baked once, one entry in Italy’s crowded November calendar of biscuits for the dead.
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