
Sicilian cannoli, the original recipe and the anecdotes
Sicilian cannoli, along with Sicilian cassata, are the most representative cake of our island, and is typical of the Carnival because it seems it was made as a joke.
When we were kids, we often played this joke by making a cannolo and putting the ricotta cheese cream at the ends, while we put an absorbent cotton wad inside. It was really funny, because the victim greedily bited the end thus finding the surprise!
In Sicily we call cannolo the faucet pipe where the water flows, and it is a metal rod that is used to make the casing (the so called “scorcia” i.e. rind in sicilian dialect) containing the cream. But from the faucet it flows water instead from from the cannolo it flows… the cream! Hence the Carnival joke.
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