Pagnotta del Doge – The Doge’s bread

pagnottaA Venetian legend narrates that in the villa of Doge Valier the cooks worked hard to delight his guests with high class gourmet specialties.

Among these, one was particularly in demand, it was a special bread sweetened with honey, butter, eggs, dried figs, walnuts: all produce from the only cultivable land, since the villa of the Doge Valier lied in a swampy area.

Today that same sweet bread reviewed in its original recipe comes back on our tables to delight us with those same ancient gourmet pleasures.