576. Pasta Margherita

Sponge Cake

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

One day my dear departed friend Antonio Mattei from the town of Prato (of whom I will have occasion to speak again) tasted this pastry at my house and asked for the recipe. Being an industrious man, it didn’t take him long to refine and perfect the recipe and begin to sell it in his shop. Later he told me that the success of this sweet was so great that hardly a dinner was given in Prato without it being ordered. People wishing to make their way in the world are quick to grasp any opportuni