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Crispelle di Riso  Sicilian St. Joseph rice fritters
Crispelle di Riso (Sicilian St. Joseph fritters, using yeast, flour and rice; drizzled with honey and orange zest)
Originated from: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Occasion: Feast Day of Saint Joseph
Contributed by: Taken from "Libro di Cucina" Italian Wikibooks

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The following text was taken from Italian Wikibooks (Google machine translation): "The Rice Crispelle "uso Benedettini", are typical fried sweets of Catania, made ​​of rice, which were once consumed for the feast of St. Joseph. It seems the first to have made this fritter were Benedictine nuns of the convent of Catania in the sixteenth century, as the recipe appears in ancient texts of Catania." Original Italian Text: ............ Le Crispelle di Riso "uso Benedettini", sono dei tipici dolci fritti catanesi, a base di riso, che venivano un tempo consumati in occasione della festivit di San Giuseppe. Sembra che a realizzare questo dolce siano state per prime le suore benedettine del convento di Catania nel XVI secolo, come risulta da antichi testi di cronisti catanesi."

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