Forti

== Description ==
Doughnut-shaped cookies
== Ingredients ==
* 600 g (1 lb 3½ oz) plain white flour (all purpose flour)
* 250 g (8 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
* 250 g (8 oz) molasses
* 250 g (8 oz) almonds (unshelled)
* 100 g (3½ oz) bitter cocoa
* 80 g (3 oz) butter
* a scant 0.1 l (3½ fl oz) milk
* 0.1 l (3½ fl oz) fortified red wine
* 2 eggs
* 1 egg white
* 1 pinch powdered yeast
* icing (confectioner's) and granulated sugar
* ½ tsp ginger
* 1 tbsp cloves, crushed
* 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
* salt
* ½ tsp white pepper
== Directions ==
# Place the molasses, the ginger, and 50 g (1¾ oz) butter, in pieces, in a bowl, mix well, and add the 2 eggs, whole, and the yeast.
# Shell the almonds, crush 200 g (7 oz) in a mortar, and add to the other ingredients.
# Add the wine, the cocoa, sprinkled from a sieve, the cinnamon, the cloves, the pepper and the ginger to the molasses mixture.
# Dissolve the salt in the milk and add to the mixture, then add the amount of flour necessary to form a dough that is both consistent and soft.
# Place the dough on a pastry board and knead with the hands, return to the bowl, cover with a cloth or a plate and allow to rest for 2 days.
# Then roll out pieces of the dough, one at a time, to form sheets.
# Using a small 7 cm (3 in) diameter mould, cut rounds from the dough sheets, making a small hole in the centre of each round with an upside down glass, smaller than the original mould, thus forming small rings.
# Crush the remaining almonds in a mortar and add a little icing sugar (confectioner's sugar) and the egg white.
# Brush this mixture on the "ciambelline" and sprinkle with the granulated sugar, crushed.
# Use the remaining butter to grease a baking tray (cookie sheet) and bake in the oven at 180°C / 350°F / gas 4 for 15 minutes.
# With the help of a spatula, remove from the baking tray and arrange on one or more pastry racks.
# The biscuits (cookies) keep for a long time in metal containers.
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