Discs of bread stuffed with minced (US: ground) chicken or quail meat and truffles.

A tart with a custard filling with pistachios.

Tart filled with jam (US: jelly) or fruit preserve.

Onion tart. Onions are sliced and stewed in butter, mixed with egg and cream, put into the pastry crust and baked until set.

Tart or pie filled with fruit.

An almond tart from Sicily made with short crust pastry base filled with frangipane.

Apple pie or tart

A pear tart from Milan flavoured with rum.

A ricotta cheesecake from Lazio with lemon peel, sugar, raisins and Marsala.

A cherry pie. Morello cherries are stoned and simmered with sugar and water, perhaps with spices such as vanilla and cinnamon, until thickened. The mixture is poured into a pie crust and covered with pastry and then baked.