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Grandmother Giannas Rice Cake Recipe


Grandmother Giannas Rice Cake Recipe
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This recipe is typical of Bologna (Emilia Romagna region, North-Eastern Italy) and it's usual to prepare it for special occasions, especially at Christmas, and comes directly from the book of recipes from my grandmother Gianna.

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Ingredients
  • 1 liter of milk
  • 400 gr of white sugar
  • 130 gr of almonds
  • 120 gr of rice
  • 100 gr candied citron
  • 100 gr of amaretti
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 stick of vanilla
  • the entire rind of 1 lemon

Directions
  1. Put the milk in a saucepan, bring to the boil and add rice, vanilla seeds (obtained accounting for the long berry and scraping the seeds with a boxcutter), the vanilla stick and the lemon rind.
  2. Cook the rice, remove from heat and add sugar, stirring well.
  3. Allow to cool.
  4. Whisk with a fork and merge the eggs to rice, mix well.
  5. Chop almonds and amaretti, citron cut into cubes and unite for the compound mixing well.
  6. Grease a roasting pan, pour the mixture and cook in preheated oven at 180°C until golden (about 30/40 minutes).
  7. Cool and serve cut into diamonds with a toothpick stuck in each diamond.

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This sounds wonderful luv the recipe thanks high5


WOW... thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe...five forks..
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Thanks! This is a very old and famous recipe here and this one comes from my granny's cookbook! ;P


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