Ingredients
For recipe see Italy Revisited/Recipes/ "Fiadone"
Directions
Notes
** Fiodone were originally known as "h'iatun'" or "hiadone" in the Molise countryside. However tourist brochures from this region now refer to them as "fiadone." Spellings vary. On the world-wide web this style of cheese pastry has many different names, including: fiadone con ricotta, fiadone al ricotta, fiadone di ricotta, fiadoni con ricotta, fiadoni al ricotta, fiadoni di ricotta, fiadone dolce, and sweet fiadone. The desserts are sometimes referred to as cheese pies and sometimes as cheesecakes. In actual fact, Italian recipes for this style of cheese-filled pastry vary in shape -- some look like regular pies or rustic torts, some look like pastry pockets or turnovers, others look like sweet ravioli (square, round and crescent-shaped) and the list goes on and on.... In some areas of Molise "fiadone" only describe pastry pockets or stuffed pastries, but in other areas the word, "fiadone," also incorporates pies or tarts.... Photo: Rita Palazzo. |
