Amalfi Coast

This is a tipical cake from Amalfi Coast.

What you need:

For the two discs of biscuit:
-6 Tablespoons toasted hazelnuts and chopped
-6 Tablespoons sugar
-2 Tablespoons flour
-4 albumens
-100 G of soft butter

For the Filling:
-300 G ricotta
-500 G cream mount
-200 G sugar
-juice of 1 / 2 lemon
-2 Kaiser pears cut into cubes and cooked in a syrup of water, sugar and the juice of 1 / 2 lemon, then cut it into puree.

Decorate for:

-2 kaiser pears  cut into quarters and boiled in syrup above (water, sugar and lemon juice)
-whipped enough to decorate the edges of the cake,
-wire caramel made by boiling 100 degrees. sugar with 50 gr. water without stirring until it turns brown.

Start:

PODS biscuits:
Mix the butter with sugar and cream to mount. Mix the flour and hazelnuts and add them to consist of butter and sugar alternately with the egg white. That is, add a little flour mixed with hazelnuts, then little egg white and so on, the compound butter and sugar.
Mix very well and put in two of butter cakes about 28 cm. in diameter and bake in hot oven at 180 ° for 20 minutes (must be golden). Allow to cool.

Filling:
Whip cream with sugar, ricotta and the juice of half a lemon.
Spin the cake by putting behind a waffle, cover with half the cream filling and spread over the puree pears.
Sit above the other wafer and fill with the filling remained.
Put the cake in the refrigerator for at least two hours but would better prepare it the day before.
Resume the cake from refrigerator and decorate the edges with whipped cream and juice from a syringe with the sweet star-blower.
Cut the slices of pear slices leaving them attached to the tip (not cut slices of all) so you can open radially and place at the center of the cake.
Prepare the caramel and cool it a bit and then get the wires with a fork. With these wires to form a dome to cover the cake. This should be done just minutes before serving dessert otherwise the threads of caramel is dissolved.

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It is a collection of buildings surrounded by a garden planted with pines, cypress trees and exotic plants.
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The style is tasteful Arab-siculo, as in all constructions of the thirteenth century in the Duchy of Amalfi. The villa was built by rich family Rufolo in the twelfth century.

Appointed several times in various literary, remembers Boccaccio, who visited Ravello and recalls Landolfo Rufolo in one of the novels of Decamerone.
To access the villa comes from Torre, whose hall is decorated with elegant arches braided.

After a driveway you come to the three floors of the villa.

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The rooms in which you are: the exhibition, divided into two aisles and used as a greenhouse, the waiting room, bathroom, the chapel and the Tower Major.
Wagner stayed in 1880, was kidnapped instantly from the park so to make the model of magical garden of Klingsor in Parsifal.

In honour of the great composer, every year we organize large music concerts wagneriane.

Ravello lies on contrafforte that divides the valley of the Dragon than that of Reginna, dominating from its 350 meters high above sea level, countries Underlying Minor and Maiori.

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It felt the mysterious magic and immortalized the memory Giovanni Boccaccio in his “Decameron”. In 1819 the great English painter William Turner stayed in Italy, going up to Ravello.

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The historical centre is embellished, apart from the Duomo, from the Duomo Square, where lies the marble fountain of Saint Andrew.
Saint Andrew is the Saint Patron of Amalfi and on June the 27th Amalfi hosts the celebrations for the feast day.

The centre of Amalfi is a very welcoming place, revived by many shops showing handcrafted products where you can find the most famous typical product of the area such as the original lemon liquor, produced in Amalfi, well- known as Limoncello.

Every 4 years, during the month of June, Amalfi hosts the historical race of the four Seafaring Republics (Amalfi, Pisa, Genova, Venezia) and lives again its ancient splendor.

Amalfi is also one of the most important centre of the maritime connections of the Salerno Gulf.
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