I love cooking - A little recipe of my land

Tuscan Cantuccini

They are almond biscuits, the most typical dessert of traditional Tuscan cuisine, 

especially coupled with Vin Santo.

Today I cooked these cookies .. I love to cook, and I want to share with you this recipe.. As I write this post, the scent fills the kitchen and the memories flood the mind ..

"But at the same instant when the liquid in which they mixed the crumbs of the cakecaught my palate, I was startled, attracted by something extraordinary was happening inside me. A delicious pleasure had invaded me, detached from any notion of his cause. Suddenly he had become indifferent to the vicissitudes of life, harmless its disasters, its brevity illusory, acting in the same way of love, filling me with a precious essence: or rather, that essence was not in me, I was THAT 'essence. I had ceased now to feel mediocre, contingent, mortal. From where he could reach me a joy so powerful? I felt it was linked to the flavor of tea and cake, but surpassed him infinitely, should not share hisnature. Where was he from? I drink a second mouthful, in which I find nothing more than the first, a third that gives me a little 'less than the second. It 's time to stop me, the virtueof the filter appears to decrease. It's clear that the truth I seek is not there, but in me." Proust

A wonderful recipe, fragrant worth trying ..

INGREDIENTS

300g of flour
200g of sugar
2 eggs and 1 yolk
1 teaspoon baking powder
200g almonds with skins
a little of grated peel of orange and lemon
1 tablespoon of brandy or rum
1 pinch of salt

Toast the almonds in the oven at 160 ° for 5 minutes.
(Check visually to prevent burning).
Remove from the oven and chop the almonds.

Whisk the eggs and egg yolk with sugar.
Add a pinch of grated lemon peel and orange and a tablespoon of brandy.
Add a pinch of salt.
Add the toasted almonds.
Add 200g of sifted flour and a teaspoon of baking powder.
Knead the dough. It will be very moist and sticky.

At this point, divide the dough in 3 parts and with the remaining flour
try to form 3 loaves and place them on how they pan with baking paper.

Bake at 180 degrees for 15 minutes, until the surface is lightly browned.
Remove from oven and let them cool a bit, otherwise you not will be able to cut them.
Cut the dough balls slightly askew trying to obtain a thickness of about 2cm.

Put them on the baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes.
Remove from oven and turn them on the other side and bake again for another 5 minutes.

And here they are, ready to be enjoyed with a wonderful Vin Santo.