Italian Pastries Recipes: Crescia Sfogliata from Urbino
The crescia sfogliata is one of the most delicious Italian pastries recipes. It can be served with cheese and veggies or with chocolate, either ways is the most scrumptious Italian flat bread. This flat bread with a herb filling is often sold in the streets of Urbino as a snack or a quick lunch and has sustained generations of students through their university years. For this recipe you will need: 400 gr. of flour 4 eggs half a cup of lard salt Work the eggs, the flour and salt until it becomes a smooth and elastic dough. Let it rest for half an hour. Stir the lard in a cup to make it soft. Make the dough into a sheet as thin as you can. Using a spatula, cover it with a very thin layer of lard.
Cut in six or seven pieces and put in the fridge until the lard gets firm. With a rolling-pin stretch each roll into a round shape. Warm up a no-stick pan and cook each crescia for a couple of minutes on each side. Fill with cheese and herbs, spinach, ham or chocolate.
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