Recipe - Pizza Dolce Di Ricotta

PASTA FROLLA
2 cup Flour
1/3 cup Sugar
One half teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Baking powder
8 tablespoon Cold unsalted butter
2 lg Eggs

RICOTTA FILLING
1 One half pound Wholemilk ricotta
One half cup Sugar
4 lg Eggs
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 tablespoon Anisette
One fourth cup Finely minced citron
1 teaspoon Cinnamon; divided

One 9 by 2inch deep cake pan, buttered. Set a rack in the lowest level of
the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.

For the Pasta Frolla, mix all dry ingredients together in a bowl. Rub
butter in finely and stir in beaten eggs. Press dough together, wrap in
plastic and refrigerate until firm.

For the Ricotta Filling, beat ricotta by hand until smooth. Stir in sugar,
then eggs, one at a time. Stir in remaining ingredients, reserving half the
cinnamon for the top of the Torta, being careful not to overmix.

To assemble, cut off 1/3 of the Pasta Frolla and reserve it. Roll the 2/3
of the dough into a 16inch disk and line a buttered and paperlined 9inch
cake pan with it. Allow the dough to hang over the edge of the mold. Pour
in the Ricotta Filling and sprinkle it with the remaining One half teaspoon
cinnamon.

Roll the remaining 1/3 of the dough into a rectangle and cut it into 10
1inch wide strips. Paint the strips with beaten egg. Moisten the rim of
the dough on the pan with the beaten egg, and adhere 5 strips in each
direction, forming a diagonal lattice. Trim away any excess dough even with
the top of the pan and push the dough all around off the top rim of the pan
so that it is completely within the pan.

Bake for about 45 minutes until light golden and puffed around the edges.
Cool in the pan before unmolding.

Yield: one 9inch cake, about 10 servings

Recipe by: Cooking Live Show #8973

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #810 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"
jfreeman@netusa1.net on Sep 26, 1997