Bianco Mangia

Almond-Filled Pastries I

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    32

    pastries
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Cucina Ebraica: Flavours of the Italian Jewish Kitchen

By Joyce Goldstein

Published 1998

  • About

Bianco mangiare is usually a bland almond custard. This Roman recipe, however, gives the name to little almond paste—filled pastries similar to the sweet almond buricche from Emilia-Romagna. Versions of this recipe appear in Donatella Limentani Pavoncello’s book Dal 1800 ad oggi: la cucina ebraica della mia famiglia, in Le feste ebraiche, in Fernanda Gosetti’s I dolci della cucina regionale italiana, and in La cucina nella tradizione eb