Ingredients
For recipe see Italy Revisited/"X Italian Pasta Dishes"
Directions
Notes
My maternal grandmother was a devotee of Saint Joseph (She believed the Saint himself once saved her life). So, this recipe is rather special to me. Even though Maccherone San Giuseppe is not a dessert, it's a main meal, still, there is honey in it, so the dish is rather sweet. In Italy olive oil was used for this recipe, but my mother prefers vegetable oil for this dish, and that's how it was always done at her house, and that's how I do it. At my mother's house this dish was only done for St. Joseph's feast day. However, my Zia Rosina tells me, that in other households in our home-town, this dish was actually served three times a year: on the Feast Day of Saint Joseph, on Christmas Eve, and on Holy Friday. Comments and photo: Mary Melfi. |
