For pastry dough
1 1/2 cups pastry flour
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/4 cup Marsala wine

For filling
Cooked figs or any cooked fruits

For dusting
Icing sugar

Cream butter and sugar, add egg and flour and mix to a soft dough, but firm enough to roll out. Use more wine if more liquid is needed.

Cut into squares -- top with chopped, cooked figs or any cooked fruits.

Seal edges together, bake in a 350 F. degrees oven until lightly browned.

Cool.

Before serving sprinkle with powdered sugar.

This recipe was adapted from one in "The Complete Italian Cook Book: La Cucina" by Rose L. Sorce. It was published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1953. For the entire copyright-free cookbook see www.archive.org....

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