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Pevarini

Pevarini is a traditional pepper cookie of Venice, Italy. It is traditionally made with molasses, lard, white pepper, and flour. Modern recipes for pevarini often use butter as a substitute for lard. Spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves are common additions to the cookie.

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Pevarini
Place of originItaly
Region or stateVenice, Veneto
Main ingredientsMolasses, lard, white pepper, flour

Pevarini (misspelled peverini in one notable source1) is a traditional pepper cookie of Venice, Italy.2 It is traditionally made with molasses, lard, white pepper, and flour.23 Modern recipes for pevarini often use butter as a substitute for lard.24 Spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves are common additions to the cookie.24

Pevarini take their name from pevare, which means 'pepper' in the Venetian dialect.4 Cookies spiced with pepper exist in some other cultures, including the pepernoten of the Netherlands and pepparkakor of Sweden.5

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  1. "Errata for The Taste of Conquest". Retrieved 2011-12-07.
  2. "Pevarini | Traditional Cookie From Venice | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  3. "Venice Recipes and Curiosities from the Venetian Cuisine". Retrieved 2011-12-07.
  4. Cuisine (2024-04-20). "Pevarini (Pepper Biscuits)". Cuisine Magazine - From New Zealand to the World. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
  5. Dalby, Andrew (2015). "Spices". In Goldstein, Darra (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 643. ISBN 978-0-199-31339-6.