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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
Dall’Archivio

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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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