All year round you can find delicious sweets and biscuits in Venice and the mainland , such as "bussolai", "baicoli" and "zaeti", made from maize floor, perfect with Malvasia wine or zabaione but in Carnival time frittelle and galani are the ones you have to try! They are the symbols of Carnival in our area and not only...
Frittelle (recipe)
Ingredients:
g. 20 yeast g 500 flour cl 300 milk 2 eggs g 100 white sugar g 100 butter oil, for frying.
Mix the floor, sugar, eggs and milk together in a bowl, add a pitch of salt and some yeast, raisins, lemon and grated apple. Mix until smooth , then leave to rest somewhere warm. Fry until golden in a pan of oil; drain well and sprinkle with icing sugar.
Galani or crostoli (recipe)
Ingredients:
g 500 flour g 100 white sugar g 50 butter 2 eggs cl 125 white wine a pinch of salt lemon zest rum, 1Tbsp oil, for frying.
Roll out a sheet of pastry made from eggs, floor, sugar, butter, rum and a pinch of salt. Leave to rest for half an hour, then roll as thinly as possible with a rolling pin. Cut into strips, making small cuts in the centre to form bubbles. Fry, leave to cool, and then sprinkle with icing sugar.
enjoy Carnival time wherever you are :)