Pan de ramerino (rosemary buns)
8 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | ounces | Sugar |
| 1½ | cup | Olive oil |
| 2 | Sprigs fresh rosemary | |
| 4 | ounces | Raisins |
| 2 | tablespoons | Rosemary leaves* |
| 1 | Egg | |
Directions
*Finely chopped. -- Add the sugar to the bread recipe that follows, work into a dough, and leave to rise in a warm place until doubled.
Meanwhile, in a small pan heat the olive oil slowly with the rosemary sprigs. Discard this rosemary. Put the dough on a table and mix the olive oil into it. Add raisins and chopped rosemary and form into buns of 3 in. diameter. Make a cross on the top with a pair of scissors, brush with the egg (beaten), and bake until golden (20-30 mins) in a 400F oven. Both recipes from A TABLE IN TUSCANY, CLASSIC RECIPES FROM THE HEART OF ITALY, by Leslie Forbes, Penguin Books 1989.