Biscotto di Meliga Piemontese al Mais
Piedmont — Cuneo, Monferrato
Piedmont's cornmeal shortbread — one of the oldest Piedmontese biscuits, made from farina di mais fioretto (finely milled yellow maize flour), 00 flour, butter, sugar, and egg yolks, piped into rings or cylinders through a star nozzle and baked until pale golden. The cornmeal gives a distinctive gritty-crunch texture unlike any wheat-only biscuit, and a faintly sweet corn flavour that carries vanilla and lemon zest. The biscuit di meliga is the traditional accompaniment to Moscato d'Asti DOCG.