Ingredients

1 kg ricotta 800 grams ‘grain flour’ cooked

16 eggs 1 to 1 1/2 liters milk

1 little box chopped citron

about 1 kg sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

crema gialla*

3 Tablespoons Cointreau

1 teaspoon aqua millefiore

1 stick cinnamon

*Crema gialla:

1/2 liter milk

2 teaspoons flour

zest of lemon

4 teaspoons sugar

3 egg yolks

Preparation

In a pan mix flour and sugar, mix well off flame. Add yolks and peels, then put pan on low flame. When it boils, turn off flame.

Two Days Before preparing: Put ‘il grano’ in a pan with enough milk to cover it. Boil, then turn off flame.

One Day before preparing: put ricotta in a bowl with 1/4 cup sugar. Mix well, set in refrigerator.

Put boiled grano in pan with enough milk to cover it. Add a peel of lemon and 2 Tablespoons sugar. Cook until boiling. Cook cinnamon in one finger of milk, then refrigerate.

Day of preparation: Make crema gialla and pasta frolla† (or buy it.)