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Villa Cilnia's jams and preserves

Our jams and preserves are produced to offer our guests a tastier and more genuine stay. They are served for breakfast, alone or as an exquisite filling of cakes and they are rigorously handmade, obtained from our estate's fruits. We are, therefore, certain that all the necessary products are genuine (without fungicides, pesticides, herbicides) and that both the preparation and the cooking are made in the old-fashioned way, as our grandmothers used to prepare them (without additives, coagulators, preservatives) slowly and patiently so that each kind of fruit, flower or vegetable can have the necessary time to ripen.

According to every year's harvest, our production will be more or less abundant and every year it's never the same. Our guests' enthusiasm has been so encouraging that a lot of them asked us to produce an amount of jams and preserves to be sold: and it is a genuine pleasure to carry home (or make a present to your friends of) Villa Cilnia's delightful tastes and fragrances. Here's our rose, red rose, grapefruit and red tomatoes jams; our cherry, apricot, plums, green tomatoes, peaches, pears, figs, white-peaches, blackberry, melon, pumpkin, green melon, carrots, arbutus, quinces, chestnut preserves; our elderberry and redcurrant jellies..

Our preserves are sold in glass pots from 380 to 410 gr. (the weight varies according to the ingredients) and the price varies from Euro 4,5 and Euro 6,00 (sold in Villa Cilnia only).

And now, here's one of our guests' favourite cake:

Sweet ravioli
cooked with rose jam

Ingredients: (for 40/50 cakes)
- 300 gr. of flour;
- 140 gr. of butter;
- 150 gr. of sugar;
- 1 egg plus 1 yolk;

- a pinch of salt;
- a lemon's or an orange's grated peel;
- Villa Cilnia's jam (our rose jam's taste is very peculiar; anyway, we also use arbutus, quinces, pumpkin jam and all those jams whose flower's or fruit's taste - bitter or sharp - goes well with the shortcrust's sweet taste).
Preparation:
Pour the flour well on the pastry board. Make a hole in the middle and put the egg, the yolk, the sugar, the salt, the lemon's or orange's grated peel and the pieces of butter. Do not knead for a long time, make a ball of the pastry and put it in a fresh place for at least 30 minutes. Cover the pastry board and the rolling pin with flour (the ideal rolling pin for the shortcrust is that one in which you can put cold water or ice inside) and roll out the pastry (the sheet need not be too thin, but similar to those of ravioli). With a pastry cutting wheel, cut some squares of maximum 5 cm, put in the middle a coffee spoon full of jam, cover them with the rest of the pastry squares and carefully wrap the jam inside with the pastry. With the exceeding pastry you can also shape a variety of form: square, triangle, crescent, circle:let your fantasy run free. Brush the top of the pastry with milk and with the same jam you have used for the filling: when they are ready, they will have a beautiful gold colour. Put the ravioli on a pan with special paper and bake it in a warm oven (180°) for 20/30 minutes. Let them cool down on a grill.
For more information about our jams and preserves, please contact us by phone, e-mail or fax.
The vine's guardian
Only a few people know that the rose and the vine live in a romantic symbiosis: it happens also at Villa Cilnia. The rose is the vine's "biological guardian" and - planted at the top of the row - it is to first to "fall ill" when a dangerous parasite is coming. The flower's beauty shields the fruit's
health: it is therefore possible to prevent some terrible diseases after having carefully checked the rose that feels in advance that a noxious enemy is coming.

 
   
 
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