Bustrengo: Bustrengo prepared with polenta, apple, fig and toffee. 'Amore Dogs', Edinburgh
Bustrengo: Bustrengo prepared with polenta, apple, fig and toffee. 'Amore Dogs', EdinburghPeter Smith (https://www.flickr.com/people/82904227@N00) — bustrengo (polenta, apple, fig and toffee cake), 'amore dogs', Edinburgh (https://www.flickr.com/photos/purpaboo/4267246986/) via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABustrengo.jpg)CC BY 2.0
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Bustrengo

A dense, moist Christmas cake from Italy’s Romagna and San Marino, made with flour, cornmeal, leavening, olive oil or shortening, sugar or honey, breadcrumbs, dried fruit, apples, and citrus rind.

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It is a traditional Christmas dish in the Italian provinces of Forlì-Cesena and Rimini, Emilia-Romagna, and in the Republic of San Marino. Ingredients include standard cake ingredients, such as flour, leavening, olive oil or shortening, sugar or honey, etc., along with cornmeal, breadcrumbs or stale bread, figs, raisins, diced apples, lemon rind and orange rind. Bustrengo is typically a dense and moist cake.

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