607. Ciambelle o Buccellati II

Ring Cakes II

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

These family-style ring cakes are easier to make than the ones in the preceding recipe.

Ingredients

  • 500 grams (about 1 pound) of Hungarian flour
  • 180 grams (about 6-⅓

Method

Melt the butter and pour it, along with the eggs and the sugar, into a hole that you’ve made in the mound of flour. Blend the flour with these ingredients and enough milk to give the dough the right consistency, and then knead thoroughly. Lastly, add the cream of tartar, baking soda, and lemon zest or other flavoring.

Instead of making a single cake, you can make two; make the hole larg