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Mamma Graziella’s Pastiera (Wheat Pie)

Course Dessert
Author Gramaglia, A & G Fine Foods

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Filling:
  • 2.2 Lbs . Ricotta 2-2/3 Cups Sugar
  • 10 Eggs separate yolk, and whip white until stiff
  • 2.2 Lbs . shelled grain (wheaweight after soaking
  • over-night in water and cooking with milk
  • 1 Bottle orange water 2 Tbs. Crisco, 1 Cup Citron
  • Dough:
  • 2 Tbs . Sugar 1 Tbs. Crisco, 4 Eggs
  • 2-1/4 Cups Flour enough flour for a manageable dough

Instructions

Directions

  1. Rinse soaked wheat several times.
  2. Cook in milk with 2 spoons of crisco until all absorbed, cool.
  3. Beat yolks and sugar together, and then add ricotta
  4. (first pass through a strainer).
  5. Mix orange water, wheat and fruit.
  6. Fold everything in stiffened egg whites.
  7. Roll dough thin, cut strips for the top. Criss-cross dough.
  8. Bake at 350º until golden and firm for about 1 hour or more.