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Ingredients Pastry dough
Directions Instructions for pastry dough:
Notes Cream puffs were made for very special occasions in Molise, including weddings and baptisms. It seems that in Sicily cream puffs called "zeppole" were made for the Feast Day of Saint Joseph. However, not all Italian recipes that go by the name of "zeppole" are necessarily cream puffs. Some "zeppole" are simple donut-shaped fritters coated with icing sugar [See "Fritters" for an alternative recipe]. Nonetheless, many North American Italian pastry shops sell Sicilian-style "zeppole" in March to mark the Saint Joseph feast day, so many of their customers have come to associate cream puffs for this festivity. This recipe is an excellent one that can be easily home-made... Notes and photo: Mary Melfi |