Focaccia Alla Ceccobeppe

Venetian Country Cake

Preparation info
  • Serves

    12

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Recipes from an Italian Farmhouse

By Valentina Harris

Published 1995

  • About

One of the most thrifty and delicious of all the country cakes, this uses up all the leftover bits of stale bread from around the house. It tastes good, even in comparison to modern cakes, and is superb at breakfast time.

Ingredients

  • about 300 g (10 oz) stale breadcrumbs (as fine as possible)
  • 30 g (

Method

Sift the breadcrumbs and measure out 225 g (8 oz). Put these breadcrumbs into a bowl and set aside. Butter a fairly deep cake tin (or ovenproof dish), add the remaining breadcrumbs, turning the tin t