Come fine settimana riproponiamo un nostro articolo sul pasticciotto…In lingua inglese !
A typical treat from Lecce and its surrounding areas, made with a sweet crust and pastry cream.
You can find exquisite ones in all the famous pastry shops!!
It is curious that an exquisite treat that is easy to make has remained the property of a single geographic region: Salento.
Nobody knows from where it came, but the most credible hypothesis is that it is the child of a double crust cream pie, that itself was related to a sweet ricotta cake, both born in the beginning of the 1700’s in local pastry shops in Salento. In practice, it is a single serving cake with a crust. The city of Lecce has named the pasticciotto as the typical Lecce cake, and it is listed on the national food product list of traditional foods by the Ministry of Political Agricultural Foods and Forestry (according to Art. 8…
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