Sweets in Europe5

Sweets in Europe5

Masashi Utsunomiya

 

Today, I would like to describe Italy sweets. There are many delicious sweets in Italy. This is the last continuation. In Italy, the special feature of each area is seen in north, south, and Sicilia. The sweets in which the northern part used dairy products, the sweets in which the southern part used honey and ricotta, and Sicily are famous for the sweets which use the almond of a specialty article.

First of all, Gelato is sweets famous also for Japan. Gelato means "icy" in Italian. All the ice milk containing ice cream and sherbet is called gelato. In Japan, gelato points out the Italian ice cream of the taste clean by low fat. Gelato has the feature that such creamy stickiness that it kneads comes out. Since it is low fat, there is also no persistence and it can enjoy the flavor of raw material as it is. It seems that there are about 600 kinds of kinds of gelato in home Italy.
 

Secondly, Biscotti are the biscuits which are dipped in a drink and eaten. Biscotti are the baked confectionery often eaten in the Toscana district. It is the biscuit firmly roasted in oven until it dries perfectly. Because it is fairly hard, it is difficult to eat as it is. So after dipping in a drink, it is made soft and eats. In Italy, eating for breakfast is popular and it is located in a line with a table together with cappuccino or caffelatte.

Finally, Pandoro is a famous sweet of Italy. Since full use of the egg is used and it roasts in yellow, there is an alias called golden bread. Northern Italy Verona is famous for pandoro. In Italy of the home, if pandoro is purchased, sugar will also follow together. If sugar is put into the bag which has wrapped pandoro and it falls up and down, sugar will fall on whole pandoro just like snowcap, and also delicacy will increase. Pandoro is often eaten at the time of Christmas.