The Cook's Decameron

A novel with two hundred Italian recipes inside it: ten friends dine together for ten days, argue about food and cooks and country, and each day's talk ends in the day's menu.

Sweets and Cakes

6 pages in this part of The Cook's Decameron.

Sweets and Cakes (Macaroni with Tomatoes)

182. Macaroni with Tomatoes 160 183. Macaroni alla Casalinga 184. Macaroni al Sughillo 211. Bodino of Semolina 212. Crema rappresa (Coffee…

Sweets and Cakes (No Bodino of Semolina)

No. 211. Bodino of Semolina Ingredients: Semolina, milk, eggs, castor sugar, lemon, sultanas, rum, butter, cream, or Zabajone (No. 222).

Sweets and Cakes: Cream

No. 212. Crema rappresa (Coffee Cream) Ingredients: Coffee, cream, eggs, sugar, butter.

Sweets and Cakes: Maraschino

No. 216. Cremona Cake Ingredients: Ground rice, one ground maize, sugar, orange, eggs, salt, cream, Maraschino, almonds, preserved cherries.

Sweets and Cakes: Marsala

No. 222. Zabajone Ingredients: Eggs, sugar, Marsala, Maraschino or other light-coloured liqueur, sponge fingers. as Zabajone is a kind of…

Sweets and Cakes: Sauce

No. 226. Sauce Piquante (for Meat, Fowl, Game, Rabbit, &c.) One dessert-spoonful to a quarter pint of ordinary brown or white stock. It may…

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