Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A dense chewy cake of Italian origin containing nuts, honey, candied or dried fruits, and spices.
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- noun A
dense flat cake made withhoney ,hazelnuts ,almonds ,candied fruit ,cocoa andspices ; aspeciality ofSiena .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Suzanne Carreiro discovered panforte after discovering its bittersweet-chocolatey, black-peppery Umbrian cousin, panpetato, while living in Italy and researching her cookbook The Dog Who Ate the Truffle.
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"I kept thinking about how I'd never seen Umbrian-style panpepato in the States" -- or panforte either, for that matter says Careirro.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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Having grown up eating European spice cakes, she pondered panforte -- but created her own formula, using "ingredients thatI like, that werenatural andlocal" and whose sweet marriage would produce something "not as hard as a hockey puck."
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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After he passed away in 2008, she grew the business in his honor and continues developing new varieties, such as a new-this-month fig-walnut panforte.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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It's panforte, a traditional Tuscan spiced fruitcake so dense as to be almost candy.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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I watched Italian videos that artisan panforte producers had put on YouTube.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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Chelsea Britt of the Panforte Company learned about panforte from her father, a farmer who baked it avidly and sold slabs of it in zip-lock bags at his local farmers' market: My dad always loved panforte. ...
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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After much tinkering with different ingredients and baking times, his apricot-almond panforte was born, Britt remembers.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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Suzanne Carreiro suggests slicing her panforte a quarter-inch thick and serving these slices with aged Tuscan pecorino, Spanish manchego, blue cheese, dry Jack, and hearty fruit such as apples, pears, and figs.
Anneli Rufus: Medieval Energy Bars: They're Back! Anneli Rufus 2012
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Mirabile Jr. has forgotten about this photo it's a panforte I made back in December 2006
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