Yeast Cake Stuffed with Raisins

Scappi’s varied recipes for tortiglioni show how advanced his pastries had become. This particular recipe closely resembles a coffee or tea cake. Scappi’s instructions are rather hard to follow, but his aim is obviously to produce a rich, spiced mixture between layers of thin yeast dough.

Knead together 2 pounds flour, 6 egg yolks, 2 ounces rose water, 1 ounce yeast dissolved in lukewarm water, and 4 ounces fresh butter or lard that does not smell bad, and quite a bit of salt, for h