Castagnaccio is an Italian chestnut flour cake, a typically autumnal dessert made from a dough of chestnut, water, olive oil, pine nuts, and raisins, and baked. Local variations may include other ingredients such as rosemary, orange rind, fennel seeds, and other dried fruit, and it remains a rural dessert of the Apennine area where chestnuts were once a staple food. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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The Commentario delle più notabili et mostruose cose d'Italia e di altri luoghi by Ortensio Lando (1553) credits some "Pilade from Lucca" as the inventor of the castagnaccio (fu il primo che facesse castagnazzi e di questo ne riportò loda).
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Castagnaccio is an Italian chestnut flour cake. It is a typically autumnal dessert, made by a dough of chestnut, water, olive oil, pine nuts, and raisins, and baked.
- Uses Ingredient: Chestnut, Infobox main_ingredient field: Chestnut flour
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