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Italian Blueberry Crostata made with Less Sugar Homemade Blueberry Jam - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

Have you noticed? Some of the foods that I cooked and baked are inspired by our travel. These are the foods that we tasted, loved and missed. The current blueberry season has reminded me a lot of the Italian Blueberry Crostata that we had and loved in Italy. According to Wikipedia at here, crostata is an Italian baked tart or pie that was traditionally baked with friable buttery dough but now, it is mostly made with shortcrust pastry. So, this means that it is completely normal for a crostata to be crumbly, fragile and break apart easily! Is crostata a torta, galette, tart or pie? A crostata is not a torta. The Italian "torta" means cake in Italian and is...

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