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Lupini
Originated from: Casacalenda, Molise, Italy
Occasion: Special times
Contributed by: Mary Melfi

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In the 1960s my late aunts used to cure their own lupini. If I remember correctly they used to serve the lupini when visitors came to the house, alongside nuts (still in their shells) and various home-made cookies. Towards the end of the visit the more important sweets would come out (such as store-bought pastries). However, if the lupini were served at Christmas or New Year's Day they would be served after the main courses, but just before the sweets. Nowadays few people serve lupini along with sweets, but they do serve them as snacks.... The photo attached to this entry was taken in the late 1990s when my aunt, Zia Nunziatina, was still very much alive, and still very much hard at work in the kitchen (How she loved it so!). My late aunt was famous for her cookies and her pizzas. She also cured lupini, made wine grape jam and pickled vegetables long after everyone else in the family had stopped doing such things. She was a perfectionist in the kitchen, but oddly enough, she had an easy going personality, and was thus loved by one and all.

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