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Bustrengo
Sammarinese cornmeal-and-breadcrumb fruit cake with honey and citrus.
About Bustrengo
Jen’s bustrengo is a Sammarinese fruit cake combining cornmeal, flour and breadcrumbs. This version uses honey, eggs and milk, with apples, dried figs and both orange and lemon.
Honey sweetens the fruit-and-grain mixture, while citrus juice and zest add bright notes. Olive oil, milk and eggs enrich the batter.
The cake bakes to a lightly browned surface, holding the chopped fruit within its grain-and-breadcrumb base. The source describes a moist, breadlike cake associated with year-round eating and Christmas, without specifying a final serving temperature.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Wheat (gluten), Egg, Milk.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Bustrengo
Jen’s Sammarinese bustrengo with figs, apples and citrus.
- CornmealBase
- Plain flourBaseIngredient page not linked
- Fine breadcrumbsBase
- SaltSeasoning
- HoneySweetener
- Olive oilCooking medium
- EggsBinder
- MilkLiquid
- Dried figsFilling
- ApplesFilling
- Orange zestAromatic
- Orange juiceLiquid
- Lemon zestAromatic
- Lemon juiceLiquid
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Cornmeal: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Plain flour: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Literal plain flour13 cereal not separately explicit; retain unknown rather than forced wheat mapping.
- Fine breadcrumbs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat (gluten) source-confirmed. Ordinary wheat-bread commodity, full loaf formula unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Honey: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Olive oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Batter17 and explicit tin-greasing25/34 consolidated.
- Eggs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed
- Milk: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Milk source-confirmed
- Dried figs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Stemless form20, exact product treatment unprovided; no sulphite inference.
- Apples: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Orange zest: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Orange juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lemon zest: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- San Marino
- San MarinoCatalogue link pending review
- ItalyCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Sammarinese Cuisine
- Sammarinese CuisineCatalogue link pending review
AI-generated illustration of one possible presentation. Recipes and ingredients vary; the image does not establish allergen content.