Meso

🔶 Bravanese egg, sugar, butter and cardamom confection cooked in a pan and cut into twenty-four small pieces.

Ingredients

• 3 medium eggs about 150 g without shells
• 200 g white sugar
• 40 g unsalted butter
• 20 g wheat flour
• ½ tsp ground cardamom
• 3 ml neutral oil for dish and tools

Preparation

Prepare about 18 × 18 cm heatproof dish with lightly oiled heat-safe baking paper, spatula and sturdy knife. Mix eggs and sugar in bowl.

Melt butter medium heat in heavy pan and lightly brown about two minutes, never burn.

Carefully add egg-sugar mixture and stir constantly medium heat about ten to twelve minutes, scraping bottom and corners until thick and granular.

Sift flour and cardamom over mixture and stir vigorously about five more minutes to cook flour and form coherent thick mass. No raw flour after cooking.

Immediately spread into prepared dish about 1 cm thick with spatula, never touch hot mass. Mark and cut twenty-four small pieces while still cuttable.

Cool about thirty minutes before separating and serve two per portion. Eggs butter and wheat present, refrigerate reserves.