Maritozzi # Roman Raisin Rolls

(*) For 2 to 3 trays Michael Merz: At Christmas time, the cook always served what she usually did not serve during the year: a Roman specialty.

Preparation: Knead the bread dough with the olive oil (1) and half of the eggs. Gradually add a third of the flour. Cover it with a kitchen towel and let it rise in a not too warm but not too cool place for three hours.

Later knead in the rest of the flour, the remaining eggs, olive oil (2) and the sugar.

Put the pine nuts on a tray in the oven at 120 °C and roast them leisurely, shaking the tray if necessary, until golden brown all over. Cool.

Knead the raisins, pine nuts and orange peel cubes into the dough. From the dough, form elongated sausages 2, 5 centimeters in diameter, roll with a rolling pin to four millimeters thick and cut strips 2, 5 centimeters wide. Cut these in turn into pieces five to six centimeters long and cover the trays with them. Leave in a warm room for one night.

Bake in a 230 degree oven for about eight minutes.

Pull out and brush with a little bit of sugar syrup. Bake in oven for two min until yellow and remove on the spot. Cool and keep in tin cans.

The tricks For sweet pastries, you should use ‘sweet olive oil’ in the same way.

It is worth tasting this before buying. Especially Liguria and Sicily provide wonderfully round,

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