Name: Masigott (Margherita Butti, Como)
Prep time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3–4 eggs; 1 tbsp baking powder; grated zest of 1 lemon; 150 g raisins; 100 g cornmeal; 400 g sugar; salt; 150 g walnuts; 150 g pine nuts; 150 g candied orange peel; 200 g plain flour; 100 g buckwheat flour; 100 g butter

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr

Appears in

Recipes from Milan and Lombardy

By Slow Food

Published 2018

About

Ingredients

100 g butter
400 g sugar
3–4 eggs

Europe
Italy
Milan
Como
Dessert
Cake
Lombardy
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C.

Soften the butter at room temperature, then cream the butter and sugar together. Beat the eggs with a pinch of salt, then add to the butter mixture. Add the flours, cornmeal and baking powder. Stir thoroughly until no lumps are left and the mixture is