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Coddure, a traditional Easter cookie

Every time I see coloured sugar sprinkles on the grocery shelves, my mind comes back to these traditional Easter cookies. The name “coddure”, crowns, comes from the Greek “Kollura” and indicades an Easter cookies with orthodox origins. These cookies were produced by shepherds, brought with them during their travels through the countryside and the crown
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How to make a perfect Italian short pastry

Flour, eggs, butter, sugar. Few ingredients perform an authentic magic: the pasta frolla, italian short pastry. Fragrant tarts spreaded with jams, buttery cookies, crunchy shells filled with parfumed cream and fresh fruits… the pastry dough is the quintessential of the Italian cooking. The dough is quick and easy to make, but the ingredients can be
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Cassatelle di Agira

I grew up in the kitchen. The kitchen was the house’s room where I spent most of my childhood, doing my homework, reading or watching my favourite tv series, while my mothers was cooking our supper, a “crostata” or a cake. When I started cooking, first as a simple passionate, my family recipes, my family
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Rame di Napoli and some notes about Halloween

A soft spongy biscuits, rich in chocolate with a persistent scent of cloves, cinnamon and orange. All the smells that can bring to your mind that Christmas is near are closed in these delicious cookies. Here we are, Halloween is arrived and the girls are super excited. Alice will wear a black dress decorated with
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A Sicilian story, Maria Grammatico and the Genovesi pastries

Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins, so it’s at least surprising to discover that mostly of the traditional Sicilian desserts saw the light inside the Convents. It seems that the Nuns alternated hours of meditation and prayers with an extraordinary activity inside spartan kitchens, grinding kilos of Sicilian almonds, boiling hot sugar syrup
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