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Another sweet I ate in Pisa.

It is called "sfoglia di riso". Sfoglia means this kind of dry pie, and it may continue various filling. This one contains sweetened rice ("riso" in Italian"). The most popular fillings for sfoglia are, except for rice, apple and ricotta cheese. There might be others, but now I cannot remember.

I bought this from a pastry shop cum bar called "Macchi" near the library where I went to study. It used to be a great pastry shop, but when I visited this time, there were very few pastries. Maybe I arrived too late? I don't know. They used to make beautiful bomboloni with cream; sorry I forgot to eat it.




This is how the inside looks like. The filling was a bit poor, I have to say.

Behind the sfoglia is the church of San Frediano. Beautiful Pisa romanica church.