Recipe: @francescosaccomandi
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These citrus scented cream filled buns are a specialtity of Rome. Starting first centuries ago as a bun flavored with honey and raisins made by wives as sustenance for their laboring husbands. By the middle ages they had evolved into a church approved snack that could be eaten on Fridays during Lent as they were not too sweet and contained no animal fat. But it’s thought that their sweet name came later. The word marriitoso is a dimminative of marriito which means husband and there are many stories linking these little buns to love and marriage. One story goes that every Friday during Lent, men would gift a sweet bun to their loved ones. In a similar tale, the buns were how men proposed, gifting a bun to their betrothed on the first Friday in March, then the equivalent of Valentine’s Day, hiding a ring or other love trinket inside. Yet another story reverses the roles and instead the buns were decorated with sugar hearts and given by the young unmarried women of the town to eligible bachelors who would then select a wife based on the quality of her cooking. In a less romantic association, the poet Jose Belelli, who wrote in the Roman dialect, mentions Maritoso in his 1832 poem Epatre deisanti, the father of saints, in which the famous buns are one of many slang terms for a penis.
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