Letters from Tuscany

Letters from Tuscany

A yoghurt pound cake for breakfast

It must be quite a good cake, if its recipe won its space on our fridge, among polaroids, postcards and the magnets we collected during our past travels.

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Giulia Scarpaleggia
Mar 19, 2021
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My mum introduced me to the joys of baking when I was very young. On Sunday mornings, she would wrap me in a large apron, place me on a stool in the kitchen, and hand me ingredients to mix in a large yellow glass bowl: eggs, flour, sugar, olive oil, or yoghurt. We would make a ciambellone, a simple, moist cake for breakfast. During the week, she would c…

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