When do you normally prepare it:
Prepares the Christmas period
Legend
I guai da pignatta i sapi u cucchiaru c’ha rimea
[dialetto gallo-italico; Novara di Sicilia (ME)]
Ingredients
Sugar g. 800
Flour g. 600
Hazelnuts g. 400
Cinnamom 1 piece
Clove 10
Preparation
Toast hazelnuts and finely grind them in a pestle.
In the pestle, grind together cinnamom and clove.
In a bowl, mix sugar, flour, cinnamom, clove; add some water but avoid that dough become too soft. Add hazelnuts, if needed (dough too soft), add some flour.
Oil a pan with seeds oil and pour on spoonful of dough well distanced.
Place in oven at 200°C until “ramette” swollens and become of golden colour.
Before moving from the pan, wait for complete cooling.
History
This sweet prepares the Christmas period, has been imported from Naples in the territory of Novara of Sicily by the poet Cristina Anselmo around 1850.
She was born in Palermo from Novara Carmelo Anselmo and Teresa Velasquez; married Carlo Arpino of Modugno, government minister and became Lady Bourbon court in Naples.
Were widow and settled in Florence where he died in 1859. Amò always the land of his ancestors and always remembered in many poems, some of them unpublished.