213. Castagnole II

Name: Castagnole II (Little Chestnuts II)
Ingredients: a pinch of salt; 2 tablespoons of fumetto44; 2 tablespoons of water; 20 grams (about ⅔ of an ounce) of sugar; 20 grams (about ⅔ of an ounce) of butter; 2 eggs

Little Chestnuts II

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well

By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

About

Here is a second recipe for castagnole. Try both and use the one you prefer.

Ingredients

2 eggs
2 tablespoons of water
2 tablespoons of fumett

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Break the eggs and drop the yolks in a bowl, adding the sugar, the fumetto, the water and the salt. Mix well. Beat the whites until stiff. On a pastry board, fold all these ingredients and the butter into enough flour to make a dough that you can knead with your hands. Work the dough hard until it becomes nice and smooth. Then make nuggets the size of a small walnut and fry them, as in the prev