/panfortei/
Noun m singular (Lit. "strong bread")
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Panforte is a kind of dessert made with fruit and nuts, which wiki compares to a fruit cake, but it's not like fruit cake at all because I hate fruit cake and panforte is yumtastic. There're no soggy raisins! It's kind of like, whole almonds and fruit and nuts and things held together with a sweet sticky honey-like mass which tasted mildly of marmalade (but not too much) and spices. And with a thin layer of rice paper on the base. It is scrummmmy!
The name panforte; 'strong bread' refers to the spicy flavours. It originates from Siena in Tuscany and dates right back to the 13th century where it was used as payment to the monks and nuns of local monastries and was taken by Crusaders when they went on their quests and often used to survive sieges thanks to it being such a durable confection.
800 years on and it still tastes delizioso!
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