Tipical sweets of Bronte
The manufacturing of sweets uses naturally l'«Bronte's
gold» (the
pistacchio) that, especialy in the preparation of
pastry, cakes, ice cream, nougat, etc., gets exalted for the
exceptional taste quality.
Other traditional ingredients are the cottage cheese, the
dry fruit (walnuts, almonds, figs, hazelnuts), raisin,
mustard, honey, cooked wine (made with prickly pears
juice). The
confectioners of Bronte, following familiar tradition,
continue to use
genuine and local
ingredients have become famous for the very many
recognitions received in several exhibitions.
With the precious fruit that nature has put at their
disposal are particularly exalted two classical brontese
delights, ice cream and pistachio cake, but also in
many other refined sweets:
pistachio flavored liquors or milk, crushed pistachio
sauce, pistachio cream, the classic pistachio fillets,
nougats, pastry (plain, with icing sugar, or chocolate
covered), ...and innumerable other delicacies of
unique taste. The
preparation of some sweets, according to peasant tradition,
is often articulated by the calendar (Easter, the
Commemoration of the dead, Christmas, Carnival) or the
seasons.
Besides those based
on pistachio, are traditional sweets the
almonds pastry, the fried ravioli filled with seasoned
fresh cottage cheese, the fillette, le
nuvolette (an oval, soft sweet made with flour,
starch and eggs), i cuori
(almond paste), the sfingi (a deep fried mix
of boiled flour, sugar and eggs), the panitti
(typical Christmas sweet filled with crushed almonds,
pistachio, dried figs, honey), the vino cotto (cooked
wine), the "mastazzori"
and the mostarda
made with the particularly sweet prickly pears juice. |
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