3 eggs

Same weight in sugar

Same weight in flour

Same weight in melted butter

1 teaspoon baking powder

7 apples or 3 gigantic pears

(I used my postal scale - it worked fine!)

Beat eggs with the sugar

Add the flour a little at a time with along with the baking powder - then add melted butter - mix well - set aside.

Peel, core and thinly slice fruit. Mix well with batter.

Add to baking dish (coated with butter and flour)

Bake for at least an hour - cover with foil if starting to brown too much.

Torte is cooked when inserted knife is clean.

Zabaione Cream

4 egg yokes (save one shell half as a measuring cup)

4 half egg shells of sugar

4 half egg shells of Vin Santo*

1/2 cup heavy whipping cream

Beat eggs with sugar until frothy.

Add Vin Santo - mix well.

Put on top of double boiler (boiling) and whisk constantly until sauce starts to thicken.

Make sure all little yellow specs of raw egg are gone but do not over cook.  Let cool completely.

In a separate bowl, beat cream until stiff peaks form and fold in the Zabaione.

Yum...

Variation - make just the Zabiaone as above... Serve over roughly chopped fresh ripe peaches and top with crumbled amaretto biscotti ... Yum!

Buon Appetito!

Mediterraneo - 1991, Gabriele Salvatores

Facing Windows - 2004, Ferzan Ozpetek

The Bicycle Thief - 1948, Vittorio de Sica

And others - in English

Much Ado About Nothing - 1993, Kenneth Branagh

For Roseanna - 1997, Paul Weiland

My Voyage to Italy - 1999, Martin Scorsese

Under the Tuscan Sun - 2003, Audrey Wells

Stealing Beauty - 1996, Bernardo Bertolucci

Tea With Mussolini - 1999, Franco Zeffirelli

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