“Detourism: La newsletter di Venezia”, the official Town of Venice Tourism Office Newsletter, today reveals the best Venice doughnuts recipes! Enjoy your reading!
The art of making Venice carnival doughnuts.
In the days of the Venetian Republic, making the doughnuts, the famous Venice Carnival doughnuts (deep fried pastries called frìtole), was an art reserved for the fritolèri, street food vendors legally aknowledged as an association by the Governement of the Serenissima.
At the beginning of the 17th century the fritolèri in Venice, identifiable by the white apron, were about 70, organized in a craft guild, which had its own rules and regulations (the so-called mariègola) and an art sign, now housed in the Correr Museum.
The fritolèri had the exclusive right of kneading, frying and selling frìtole on the street during Carnival. The classic recipe was flour, eggs, sugar, raisins and pine nuts. Once sprinkled with sugar, the doughnuts were displayed on large tin or pewter plates, variously decorated. Sometimes, they were threaded onto skewers so that people could eat them right away without soiling their hands. We find an example in the painting La venditrice di frìttole by Pietro Longhi at Ca’ Rezzonico. The Government of the Serenissima had imposed a curious rule on the fritolèri: they could sell their sweets around the city, freely, but without crying aloud!
Today doughnuts are prepared in the classic version with raisins and pine nuts; but they can be stuffed with all sorts of creamy fillings: Chantilly cream or zabaglione, chocolate cream, pistachio cream, ricotta or apples.
Find out Venice frìtole recipe
[fonte: La newsletter di Venezia, N° 02/2021 del 23.01.2021]
[immagine: Vela / Comune di Venezia]
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