Pitte San Martino
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Pitte San Martino

Pitte San Martino is a traditional Italian pastry often made during the Christmas season. Mum’s recipe is always popular and very hard to capture as her cooking is so instinctive. This recipe is completed over two days. The pastry is filled with a nut mixture that includes sultanas, almonds, walnuts, figs, apricot jam, coffee, cocoa, and Marsala. The pastry itself is made from self-raising flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, and milk. Once the filling is made, it is placed in rolled-out pastry and shaped into half moons before being baked. The pastries are brushed with an egg wash and can be adorned with sprinkles. These pastries freeze well, making them convenient to prepare in advance for festive occasions.

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Step 1
Cream with a mixer, sugar and eggs until sugar is dissolved. Add softened butter and vanilla extract and milk.

Step 2
Once mixed shift flour through and knead until combined. Allow to rest for at least 1/3 hour.

Step 3
Peel the skin off a whole lemon and orange. Try not to cut too much of the white part of the peel as this is bitter. Dice superfine with a tablespoon of sugar. This can be done ahead of time. Set aside.

Step 4
Add sultanas and chopped/ crushed nuts into a bowl. Cut up the dried figs into small pieces.

Step 5
Add 3 tablespoons of cocoa & apricot jam.

Step 6
Add sweetened 3 shots of coffee to the nuts with Marsala. Mix through. Add to a pot on the stove and heat through until just warm. Allow to soak. We left for about 5 days before we put the in the pastry.

Step 7
Roll the pastry in a pasta machine, put a tablespoon of mixture and fold over the pastry into half moons. Use a pastry cutter to cut the dough. Use a knife to slit the pastry to allow to cook evenly. Sprinkle with 100’s & 1000’s.

Step 8
Brush each Martini with egg wash. And place in a 180 degree oven until golden.

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