Maritozzi Romani

Preparation info
  • Makes

    8

    large rolls
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

By Beth Hensperger

Published 2000

  • About

Maritozzi translates to “big husband” (from marito, the Italian word for husband), and are panini dolci, sweet and tender rolls that have been made in Rome during Lent since medieval times. They have pine nuts, raisins, and candied orange peel. A great breakfast roll, these are good with coffee and tea.

Ingredients

1½- or 2-pound-loaf machines

  • ½ cup golden raisins
  • ¼ cup sweet white wine, like Asti Spumante

Method

  1. In a small bowl, cover the raisins with the wine. Macerate for at least an hour at room temperature.
  2. Place the ingredients, except the raisins, pine nuts, and orange confit, in the pan according to the order in the manufacturer’s instructions. Program for the Dough cycle; press Start. (This recipe is not suitable for use with the Delay Timer.) The dough ball wi