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Sfogliatelle Napoletane Recipe


   
Recipe Categories: Dessert Recipes
Yield: 4 servings
 
Ingredients
  -----------FOR THE PASTRY---------------  
  2  c Flour  
  1 1/2  c Butter/margarine  
  2  tb Sugar  
  2   Eggs  
    Salt  
    Milk  
  ----------FOR THE FILLING---------------  
  1   Egg  
  3   Egg yolks  
  1/2  c Superfine sugar  
  1  tb Cornstarch  
  1 1/4  c Hot milk  
  1/4  ts Vanilla extract  
  1/2  c Ricotta cheese  
  2  tb Candied orange peel; diced  
  1   Egg; beaten  
    Powdered sugar  
 
Instructions
 
  1. Combine pastry ingredients, adding enough milk to give dough a soft, elastic consistency. Knead well, cover & chill for 30 minutes.

 
  2. FILLING: beat 1 egg & 3 egg yolks with wuperfine sugar, add cornstarch and graduallyl mix in milk and vanilla. Pour into a pan; place over low heat and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, allow to cool and mix in ricotta and orange peel. Preheat oven to 375. Roll out pastry on a floured board, then cut into rectangles. Put filling on half the rectangles and cover with remaining rectangles, sealing edges firmly. Brush with beaten egg. Arrange on a greased, floured baking sheet and bake until golden brown. Dust with powdered sugar.

 
  From "The Flavors of Italy."

 
   


 



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