Italiano
Raisins and nuts Christmas cake
- 16 May, 2023
- Home , Ancient recipes
History of the recipe
In peasant culture it was the typical Christmas dessert prepared with the ingredients available at the time: raisins, dried in the oven, walnuts, harvested in autumn, oil, produced in November. No eggs are used
After harvesting the grapes, bunches of them with big red grains, called "bacuclon", were left for long time and for several times in the warm oven, and week after week the grains would get dry, sweet and tender, ready to be used for the Christmas cake.
Ingredients
- 40 gr fresh yeast
- 200 gr Agape extra virgin olive oil
- 500 gr flour
- 250 gr coarsely chopped walnuts
- 250 gr soaked raisins
- 3 gr salt
- Warm water (enough to get a soft dough)
Instructions
Melt the yeast in warm water, mixing carefully. Stir for 3-4 minutes the yeast, the flour, salt, walnuts and raisins until the dough is smooth and homogeneous.
Line a round shaped baking pan with parchment paper, spread the dough and let it leaven in the oven at 40°C for one hour.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180° for about 60 minutes and in any case until a nice golden color is reached.
