Zaleti Bolognesi

I saw the Legendary Italian Baker and teacher Margherita Simili prepare these when she came to give a class at Peter Kump’s New York Cooking School in the late eighties. Though unfortunately I long ago lost Margherita’s recipe, my re-creation here is very much like hers in flavor and texture. Zaleti (gialetti in Italian) means “little yellow things” in Emilian dialect.

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