Venice Recipes and Curiosities
from the Venetian Cuisine

Bussolai and Eses from Burano

Ingredients:

00 wheat flour kg. 1

butter grs. 250

sugar grs. 600

11 yolks and 1 whole egg

grated lemon peel

vanilla or anise

salt

Ingredients (light version):

00 wheat flour grs. 500

butter grs. 250

sugar grs. 250

6 yolks and 1 whole egg

grated lemon peel

vanilla or anise

salt

Modus Operandi

Set the flour on the desk in the shape of a cone with a hole in the middle to accommodate the softened butter. Leave it out of the refrigerator well in advance to reach ambient temperature, DO NOT melt it on the fire.

Slightly whip-up the eggs with the sugar, then add the compost to the flour together with the remaining ingredients.

Knead the whole fast and well. having cold hands.
Form as desired (rings and Eses are traditional shapes; put in the oven at about 180° till cooked.

Once the biscuits are cooled down, preserve well closed in boxes or bags.

Also this food, highly energetic and long life, comes from seafaring tradition.
The ring shape (bussolà) served the purpose to preserve the biscuits from the mice, keeping them (the biscuits, not the mice :-) ) threaded on horizontal ropes.