Homemade Ladyfingers – Savoiardi

Savoiardi

Homemade ladyfingers

The ladyfingers are dried and light biscuits in the shape of a fingers, in fact, the British call them “ladyfingers”, a fingers of lady, they are excellent to be soaked especially in coffee and from this combination the legendary “tiramisu” is born, but they are also the “Charlotte” biscuits, typical French dessert, from countless variants and shapes.

This dessert was born more than 600 years ago, with the name of Biscuit de Savoie, from a maître pâtissier, employed by Amadeo VI of Savoy. On the occasion of the visit of Emperor Charles IV of Luxembourg. The biscuits liked a lot and officially became the Savoy home dessert, they were later called ladyfingers. This dessert spread throughout Italy, especially in the regions that suffered the influence of Savoy such as Sardinia and Sicily.

The Savoiardi are called Pistoccus in Sardinia and Raffiolini in Sicily and are among their best known typical desserts. The recipe of ladyfingers is not difficult to perform, you have to be careful, however, not to disassemble the eggs, carefully follow the steps you find in the recipe and you will get a result from real pastry chefs.