To make an Italian Basket
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Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 3 ingredients
Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- Prepare your wafers by the instructions for wafers in the first part ;
- then boil clarified sugar to the degree called carmelled ;
- dip one end of the wafer into the sugar, and fix it on the dish ;
- then another, and so on until you have got round ;
- be careful to place them quite close and upright ;
- you may fix one white and one pink wafer, which - will make a neat basket.
- If you wish to have a bottom to the basket, make an almond cake ;
- bake it in a tin rim the size of the bottom of the dish, one inch deep ;
- fix the cake first to the dish;
- and then the wafers to it.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan