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Pinza Veneta – Holiday Cornmeal Cake from Veneto

January 6, 2016 By very EATalian 2 Comments

Pinza Veneta - Holiday Cornmeal Cake from VenetoPinza Veneta - Holiday Cornmeal Cake from Veneto

Here in Italy the holiday season is officially closing with today’s Epiphany festivities and tomorrow people will start taking down their Christmas decorations (if it was up to me, I’d keep’em up all year long!). Today, my family and I will enjoy the pinza leftovers from last night’s Panevin and get together to play boardgames.

As I mentioned in my previous post, pinza is a rustic cake made with polenta flour (which is a bit coarser than cornmeal) and wheat flour and it’s filled with dried fruit such as raisins, figs, dates and flavored with grappa, fennel seeds and orange zest. My mom and my aunt always get together to make it and they take turns mixing the ingredients in the pot, as the dough is quite thick and dense (like polenta!). Since both of them have bad shoulders, I normally step in and help them with the mixing. This time I carefully observed how they make it and …

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Filed Under: Desserts & Sweets, Holidays Tagged With: befana, cake, dessert, epiphany, grappa, holidays, pinza, torta

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