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Bustrengo

Name: Bustrengo
Total time: 80 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: San Marino
Ingredients: 2 Bread; 80g Corn grits; 60g All-purpose flour; 400ml Milk; 2 Egg; 3 tbsp Honey; 60g Sugar; 1 Apples; 40g Raisins; 30g Walnuts; A pinch Lemon zest; 30g Butter

Dessert

⏱ 80 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Bread and cornmeal baked with apples and dried fruit — a humble Sammarinese cake.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bustrengo is a traditional sweet of San Marino and Romagna: stale bread, cornmeal, milk, eggs, and honey are mixed with apples, raisins, dried figs, walnuts, and more and baked. Born as a 'poor man's cake' that used up what was in the house, it's often made around Christmas.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a Sammarinese home in winter, a dense brown cake is cut into squares and served with espresso.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread 2
Corn grits 80g
All-purpose flour 60g
Milk 400ml
Egg 2
Honey 3 tbsp
Sugar 60g
Apples 1
Raisins 40g
Walnuts 30g
Lemon zest A pinch
Butter 30g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Tear the bread and soak in warm milk.
Add the eggs, honey, sugar, and melted butter and mix.
Add the corn grits, flour, and lemon zest.
Mix in the diced apple, raisins, and chopped walnuts and pour into a pan.
Bake at 180°C for 50 minutes.

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