Pastiera, cassata and more. From the great classics like the dove to the delights to be reinvented, the recipes of Easter desserts light up the imagination
Pastiera, cassata and more. From the great classics like the dove to the delights to be reinvented, the Easter recipes light up the imagination, stimulating the desire for sweet. We can grant it, it's time to savor a moment of sweetness with friends and rediscover the good cuisine with the ancient traditions of this period.
When was the dove born?
Not everyone knows that the Easter cake perhaps most famous and widespread throughout Italy, it was conceived in the 1930s in Lombardy. Thanks to an idea by Dino Villani, director of advertising, one in Milan is starting to be tested recipe based on flour, eggs, butter, sugar, candied orange and almonds, a classic preparation that still exists, with an intense and simple taste. Today there are many variations, with the addition of ingredients as the limoncello, chocolate or fruit. It is possible to prepare the dove also at home: the secret? Do not rush. Because for things done with love it takes time. Symbol of peace and renewal, the dove through its name carries a benevolent wish.
Easter cakes in the Mediterranean
In the Ragusa area the ancient recipe of the real pasta, born in the Norman era thanks to the nuns of the Martorana convent, it was preserved for centuries with care transforming the baked cassata in the typical Easter cake. But the ricotta cheese is also present in another well-known preparation of southern Italy, the pastiera, widespread in the Campania region, but also in the province of Reggio Calabria, a delight based on stuffed shortbread and candied fruit.
Easter sweets in Europe
The Easter chocolate bunny, which only in recent years began to spread also in Italy, in other countries constitutes an ancient tradition, together with the egg hunt of chocolate, organized for children on the occasion of Easter. From Germany to the United Kingdom, in Northern Europe the rabbit, as well as theegg and thelamb, is recalled in the Easter sweet recipes. Linked to pagan rituals and ancestral mythological figures, in connection with the time of spring rebirth, its shape is recreated with pasta, sugar and eggs or lots of chocolate. The glazed cakes and i Chocolate sweets decorated by sugar eggs, up to the Easter braid, widespread in the German world, complete the delights of this period, during which, since ancient times, we celebrate the end of the cold winter by welcoming the sun and the new season that begins.
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