In breve

The dish in short

• Eggs, sugar, finely chopped almonds with a few bitter ones, semolina and orange zest; no baking powder, as the whisked eggs alone make it rise.
• The yolks are whisked with the sugar until pale and foamy, the whites until stiff, then folded in a spoonful at a time.
• Baked in a hemispherical mould, so it keeps the dome of the pane rozzo, the cornmeal bread it was modelled on.
• Covered entirely in melted dark chocolate once cold: the dark coat stands for the scorched crust of bread from a wood-fired oven.