Zeppole with vino cotto.
Recipe:
Zeppole with vino cotto.
Hi Erica,
I first discovered your website while searching for pizza de scarola. Now I am intrigued by your “Lost Recipes Found” section. A few years back I wrote a cookbook with all my Nana’s recipes. It’s called Who Has Nana’s Recipe? My website is whohasnanasrecipe.com.
Unfortunately, one recipe lost with Nana’s passing was of a dessert. It was shaped like a doughnut hole and fried; then she soaked it in a raisin syrup called vino cotto. We have the syrup recipe; we are just not sure how she made the doughnut hole that eventually got soaked in it. I am assuming it was made with yeast, as I recall its having a spongy consistency when we ate it as children.
I wonder if it is similar to a zeppole recipe. My mom doesn’t think so.
Nana came from the Puglia region. Her town was Toritto, just southwest of Bari.
Any help you can provide would be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Regina (more…)
Erica De Mane 