{"id":263544,"date":"2020-01-28T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/?p=263544"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:15:48","slug":"venetian-fritters-with-custard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/venetian-fritters-with-custard\/","title":{"rendered":"Venetian fritters&#8211;with custard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>Venice, Carnival<\/strong> is one of the most beautiful times of the year and has a very unique charm.<\/p>\n<p>Colorful masks typical of the tradition pour into the calli, not to mention the intense scent of <strong>Venetian sweets<\/strong> in the air. There are records of Carnival festivities as far back as 1094, under the dogate of Vitale Falier, in a document that mentions public entertainment in the days leading up to Lent. During these days the world seemed to be no longer resisting and desires became achievable, there was no thought or deed that was not possible.  <\/p>\n<p>Among the traditional sweets of Carnival are frittelle, which we present here in an indulgent version filled with pastry cream. Follow our recipe step by step and the result is guaranteed&#8230; to be paired, of course, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/product\/quorum\/\">Organic Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore DOCG Extra Dry<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>400 g of flour<\/li>\n<li>100 g of sugar<\/li>\n<li>30 g of butter<\/li>\n<li>200 ml of milk<\/li>\n<li>1 sachet of vanilla powder<\/li>\n<li>1 cube of brewer&#8217;s yeast<\/li>\n<li>custard<\/li>\n<li>organic peanut oil for frying<\/li>\n<li>salt<\/li>\n<li>powdered sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method:<\/strong><br \/>\nDissolve the yeast in a little lukewarm water.<br \/>\nMound the flour on your work surface, making a well in the centre, and pour in the water with the yeast, the butter (softened!), the sugar, the milk, the vanilla and a pinch of salt.<br \/>\nKnead everything together, working the mixture thoroughly so that the ingredients are well combined.<br \/>\nCover the dough and leave it to rise for one hour.<br \/>\nHeat the oil until it reaches the right temperature for frying.<br \/>\nWith moistened hands, take a little dough and shape it into round fritters about the size of a walnut.<br \/>\nDrop your fritters into the oil and remove them only once they are nicely golden.<br \/>\nPrepare the pastry cream.<br \/>\nOnce the cream has cooled, begin filling the fritters.<br \/>\nFinish with a dusting of icing sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Treviso a big step toward change! As reported in an article in La Tribuna di Treviso of July 17, 2019, Community, a leading Italian strategic brand reputation consultancy, has begun a partnership with Nativa, a Milan-based company and Europe&#8217;s first B-Corp, to help companies create a positive impact on the planet and to certify Italy&#8217;s B-Corps. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263888,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263544\/revisions\/263888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perlagewines.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}