Sammartina

Name: Sammartina
Yield: serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup brown sugar; 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt; 8 ounces sweet butter, slightly softened, plus additional for tart pan; 4 large egg yolks, beaten; 2 tablespoons orange-scented liqueur, Cointreau or Grand Marnier; Finely grated zest of 1 lemon; Finely grated zest of 1 orange; 1/2 cup white raisins, plumped in warm water; 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped and lightly toasted; 1/2 cup blanched almonds, chopped and lightly toasted; Confectioners’ sugar

January 24, 2012

Once used only to bake the fanciful soldiers on horseback given to children on the festival of San Martino, the short, buttery dough, in less fantastical shapes and forms, is a daily offering now in every pasticceria, luscious even with the slurring of its namesake.

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