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Cuddhuraci, Cuddhura or Cudduraci
Cuddhuraci, Cuddhura or Cudduraci -- Calabrian Easter cookie or holiday bread shaped as animals or flowers -- Wikipedia Notes
Originated from: Calabria, Italy
Occasion: Easter
Contributed by: Taken from "Libro di Cucina" Italian Wikibooks

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Wikibooks: "Cuddhuraci or to Cuddhura (The cudduraci ) is an Easter cake typical of Reggio Calabria...." From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. U Cuddhur?ci or to Cuddh?ra (Italianized the cudduraci , the Cuddur?ce or the cuddura ) is an Easter cake typical of Reggio Calabria . The name derives from the greek "κολλύρα" = "collira, Collura." Always made ​​from simple ingredients is prepared with flour and sugar (or formerly with corn meal and cooked must or syrup of figs). In ancient times it was used as food for the trip and was not sweet. According to oral tradition was the bread, stuffed with eggs, brought by the Jews during the exodus from Egypt in the Christian customs and traditions transmigrated now consumed during the Easter Monday picnic(Pascuni). It is customary for the young "zite" (girlfriends) prepare a cudduraci your groom as a symbol of love, the sweet is prepared with lots of heart-shaped boiled egg-shaped, or "chick" with the egg in tummy as a hope for the birth of a happy marriage offspring in the next, and it is customary to think that the greater is the magnitude of the sweetest, love is felt for the person to whom you give away.... Original Italian Text: U Cuddhur?ci o a Cuddh?ra (italianizzato il Cuddur?ci, il Cuddur?ce o la Cudd?ra) ? un dolce pasquale tipico di Reggio Calabria.Il nome deriva dal greco ?κολλύρα? = ?collira, collura?. Fatto sempre con ingredienti semplici e genuini ? preparato con farina e zucchero (o anticamente con farina di granturco e mosto cotto oppure sciroppo di fichi). Nell'antichit? veniva usato come pane per il viaggio e non era dolce. Secondo la tradizione orale era il pane, farcito di uova, portato dagli Ebrei durante la fuga dall'Egitto, tradizione trasmigrata nelle usanze cristiane ed oggi consumato durante la scampagnata del luned? dell'Angelo (Pascuni).... Tradizione ? usanza che le giovani "zite" (fidanzate) preparino un cudduraci al proprio promesso sposo come simbolo d'amore, il dolce viene preparato a forma di cuore e con tante uova sode oppure a forma di "pupa" con l'uovo sodo nella pancia come augurio per la nascita di una felice prole nel prossimo matrimonio; ed ? usanza pensare che maggiore sia la grandezza del dolce, pi? sia l'amore provato per la persona a cui si regala..... Photo: Mary Melfi.

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