Penia (bread)

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Penia
Type Sweet bread
Place of origin Italy
Main ingredients Sugar, butter, eggs, anise seeds, lemons

Penia is a sweet bread from rural Italy that is prepared during the Easter holidays. Ingredients include sugar, butter, eggs, anise seeds and lemons. [1]

See also

Wikibooks-logo-en-noslogan.svg Anise Bread (Penia) at the Wikibooks Cookbook subproject

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References

  1. "Penia | Traditional Sweet Bread From Italy | TasteAtlas". www.tasteatlas.com. Retrieved 2023-03-04.