This recipe is for a traditional Italian winter cake called Castagnaccio made with chestnut flour, raisins, pine nuts, walnuts, sugar, orange rind, olive oil, and salt. The dry ingredients including the flour are mixed with water and allowed to rest for an hour before being poured into an oiled baking pan and baked for 40 minutes at 180°C, then served lukewarm.

1. Castagnaccio:Castagnaccio: a winter cakea winter cake
November 2013November 2013

2. Ingredients for six persons:
- Chest nut flour:
400 grams.
- Raisin: 100 g.
- Pinenuts: 50 g.
- 6 walnuts
- two spoons of sugar
- some orange rind
- Olive oil
- A little salt

3. Sift the floor and put it into a
bowl.
Add the sugar,a little salt, a little
spoon of grated orange rind
and half a liter of water.

4. Soak the raisin in lukewarm
water for ten minutes and then
add it to the mixture together
with the pinenuts, the walnuts
and two spoons of oil.The
mixture now needs to rest for
about an hour.

5. Grease a baking pan and put the
mixture in it.The baking pan should
be quite high . Soak the mixture
with two spoons of oil and
bake it in a hot oven
(180°C)for forty minutes.

6. Eat it lukewarm

7. Eat it lukewarm