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Discover the secrets of Traditional Venetian Cookies with Organic Food recipes for baking
From the enchanting Venetian lagoon in the Adriatic Sea in Italy, when Venice was the center of trade with Asia from the 13th to the 19th century, organic baking traditions were born that are still practiced today by housewives home and confectioners. Explorers and sailors carried foodstuffs on board merchant and war galleons to survive the long voyages in dangerous seas. These they were sweet, simple to make, in the name and flavor, reflected their Venetian origins. Not to mention that in those days, the only existing agriculture created organic food without pesticides or additives are used in foods other than mother nature herself.
The Queen of them, and most famously, is called a "cookie" organic "baicoli Biscotti. Created in 1700, the word "baicoli is Venetian dialect for sea bass. In fact, oval shape, thin, long form is very similar to the bass that inhabit the lagoon. At that time, the bakers supplied to coffee shops, or they were served the guest house, along with custard cream, hot chocolate or tea. Still others served them with sweet desert wine a mastiff, Moscato dei Doge of Venice.
Today is considered delicate, light but tasty organic cookies to be enjoyed by all. In fact, almost all children in Venice today knows the poem in Venetian dialect, which boasts the goodness of their origin baicoli and Venetian.
In the lagoon is Burano, an island of fishermen, famous for its rows of brightly colored houses. From This small island is the organic cookie "Bussola Buranello" which translated means the compass of Burano. Here too, the seafaring tradition date back to centuries. Baked in a shape like a backwards "s" or outline of a circle, this cookie is a typical treatment of Holy Week, mixing at home the women of Burano, and then placed in the baking pan. The holidays are immersed in the holy wine "vin santo", or in the local whites. Packaged, were placed in the midst of boxes of clothing for them with the delicious aroma characteristic smell of this cookie.
Even today, considered a "cookie" real organic and nutrition, which is embodied in the same way, or served to children.
Both organic cookies are easy to prepare with simple ingredients organic food. The recipes below:
Biscotti baicoli —
Organic Food Ingredients: 1 ¾ cup flour, ¼ cup melted butter (unsalted), ¼ cup sugar, 1 small glass of milk, half ounce of yeast
Dissolve the yeast in a small amount of warm milk in a glass, then mixed with ¼ cup of flour. Form a ball and let it rest, covered with a cloth in a warm place until double in volume (approx 30 min).
Mix the remaining ingredients, starting with the flour and sugar, melted butter, and finally, the warm milk. (You can also Freshy add some orange juice for more flavor) Add the leavened dough and knead it all together.
Leave the dough in the mixing bowl and place the container in a large container of boiling water into the oven (off), at least one hour.
Divide the dough into about 6 long, oval shapes, each about 3 inches wide. Bake for about 10 minutes at 300 ° and then increase the temperature to 430 ° until completely cooked (about 1 h). Remove of the oven and let cool completely. Then, the thin slice of 6 oval shapes in organic cookies and put them in the oven to "toast" for 20 minutes at 120 ° – 175 °.
Dip in hot tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Or serve with custard cream or a sweet desert wine.
Bussola Buranello —
Organic Food Ingredients: 6 egg yolks, 1 cup butter, softened at room temperature 1 cup sugar, 2 cups flour, a pinch of extract (chose between, vanilla, lemon or anise, the tradition of the island), a pinch of salt.
Turning a work space of the kitchen, forming a volcano-style meal, and in the middle of creating a crater that add the softened butter (not melted).
In a bowl, whisk eggs lightly with sugar. Then add this to the butter / flour mixture and quickly mix / knead with hands.
Take the dough and create the desired cookie shapes (outline of a circle or backwards "s") and cook in oven at 350 degrees until done.
Modern versions add dark chocolate chips, raisins, or substitute a little white flour with coconut flour.
Serve these organic treats at home along with his usual range of organic foods or try with your friends at your next meeting. Take your table a culinary, organic, pastry, that taste is centuries old, however, enjoyed every day by Venetians and tourists.
About the Author
By Heather Bettendorf – President, PRIMA Organic Cookies ( http://www.primaorganic.com ) – Offering gourmet organic cookies from Italy. Our unique cookie formulations and combinations include Natural Lemon, Italian Almond, Venetian Classic, and Sunny Vanilla.
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