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Tuscan biscotti

Almonds for Tuscan biscotti
Almonds for Tuscan biscotti

A typical Tuscan biscuit from Capalbio – Tuscan biscotti

Ingredients:
5 eggs
1/2 kg of sugar
flour as is necessary
400 gr of shelled almonds
lemon rind (grated)
just a tip of leaven for walnuts

Arrange the flour on the pastry board, break off eggs and to shake them, add the sugar, the lemon rind, the almonds,  and a tip of leaven. Paste to get a soft paste. Form some rolls and put them in a buttered pie.
Put into an oven with moderate temperature for about half an hour.
After,  cut rolls in little slices large as a finger, put back in the oven again the biscuits to obtain the optimal cooking.

Cooking class in Tuscany

Olive trees

Cooking lessons and wine tour.
Private cooking class in Tuscany, guided tours in Chianti area and wine tasting assisted by “vacation consultant” in comfortable hotels in the heart of Tuscany. Also olive oil tasting combinated with lessons of traditional Tuscan cooking.

San Gimignano Torture Museum

Torture instrument

The writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, the tutelary deity of masochism went to a wedding in this museum.
In San Gimignano Torture  Museum are present torture instruments from all over Europe, some even of the sixteenth and seventeenth century or the nineteenth and twentieth century philological reconstructions of original antiques.
Machinery explain that the human mind and its perversion found systems designed to inflict torture. There are weapons, devices and instruments of torture and public humiliation, engravings, prints and paintings.

Torture Museum:
Via del Castello 1/3, San Gimignano – SIENA

Open all year – from 10 to 19 hours
Price: full € 10.00; reduced € 6,00; groups € 4.00

Web-site: www.museodellatortura.com

Traditional tuscan food

Traditional tuscan food

Are you looking for  traditional tuscan food?
Good, here you found the historic restaurant “Carignano” in Lucca. It’s a typical restaurant that offers tuscan specialities, bistecca alla fiuorentina, from the charcoal grill, many delicious traditional dishes, served ina friendly and relaxed atmosphere, but prompt service!
First class fresh local ingredients, new well appointed wine list with over 70 italian wines.
Quick fixed price lunch menu with many choices, private dining rooms for parties and meeting, open air summer terrace.
At your disposal menu for special occasions, dinner parties, birthdays, children’s parties etc..
The restaurant has ample private parking.
Carignano restaurant offers pizzeria with wood fired brick oven and a new menu, freshest ingredients and prompt service!

Restaurant “Alla Cantina di Carignano”
Via per S. Alessio 3684 Località Carignano – LUCCA – www.lacantinadicarignano.com

Open every day!