May 28, 2018 – Sweet Korčula, an island with a seemingly endless supply of fabulous traditional home-made cakes and desserts. We are very grateful to Franica Tasovac for allowing us to serialise her excellent books called Sweet Korcula, Sweeties of Korcula Grannies (in English). It is a collection of no less than 30 ancient recipes for Korcula cakes and desserts, lovingly put together into a book. A delightful souvenir or gift for gourmet friends. Franica has kindly allowed us to serialise the recipes on TCN, and we will be bringing you a recipe a week from the kitchens of Korcula’s grandmothers throughout the year. You can read Claudia Tarle’s lovely introduction here.
AMARETI
1 egg
250 g almonds (finely chopped)
200 g sugar
1 vanilla sugar
zest of one lemon
1 tbs of almond liqueur or 2 drops of bitter almond extract
Heat the oven to 150*C
Stir all ingredients together with hands. Leave the resulting mixture to rest a while.
Take some of the mixture and make small balls and arrange them on the plate coated with greasy paper. Bake for twenty minutes.
Leave roasted amareti to cool on the sheet metal.
You can buy this booklet at:
Town library “ Ivan Vidali “
Flower shop “ Fiorino “
“ Manina “
“ Komo “
Tourist agency “ Kaleta “
Souvenir shop “ Suzy “
Bookshop “ Kutak knjiga “
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