The Neapolitan pastiera

The Neapolitan pastiera

The Italian pasti, also known as wheat pizza, is a traditional Neapolitan dessert, especially eaten during Easter. Probably the name derives from the word pasta, but it is not salty and according to some legends, a nun from a comment in Sanreoro created this dessert for the first time in the 16th century. Its main ingredients are flour, picotta cheese, eggs, cooked wheat, milk, sugar, and orange blossom. And it is typically prepared on Holy Thursday to be eaten on Easter and Easter Monday. It consists of a fragrant tart with a delicate pastry crust. And it is covered with stripes to prevent the feeling from leaking out. The piera is a symbol of lots of things such as spring, rebirth, joy, and warmth of home. Now I will talk about two important legends about the pasta. The first legend is the legend of the partnope mermaid. The legend tells of partnob the mermaid that lived in the Gulf of Naples that every spring emerged from the sea to greet Napolitan people with their melodic singing. The locals to thank her wanted to offer to her precious gifts from the homelands such as wheat symbol of rebirth, ricotta cheese, symbol of bounty, eggs, symbol of life, orange blossom essence, companions land perfume, and sugar symbol of sweetness. Bartenobe accepted this gift, mixing them all together and created a sweet dessert, the pasta. The second story is the legend of the sea. The legend goes a night where the fishermen’s wives lived on the seashore some baskets with eggs, wheat, ricotta cheese, and orange blossom essence as a gift to make sure that the sea would stay calm and their husbands could come back home safe and sound. The sea swaved by the waves mixed these ingredients together and the next morning the wise found a sweet dessert with a great scent. The pasta.