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Product included in the national list of traditional agri-food products (PAT)
PAT type : Fresh pasta and bakery, biscuit, pastry and confectionery products
Production Area : All of Sicily.
Technical data sheet of the traditional agri-food product (PAT)
Production area: All of Sicily.
Brief product description: A spherical baked product, the size of a pizza, with a variety of fillings. The most common are tuma cheese and anchovies, and broccoli.
Description of the processing and maturing methods: Ingredients for the dough: fine flour, durum wheat flour, natural yeast, a spoonful of sugar, lard.
For the filling: tuma cheese and salted anchovies for the scacciata con la tuma; broccoli, salted anchovies and spring onions for the broccoli.
Preparation: mix the two types of flour with natural yeast, sugar, a pinch of salt and a little warm water, and prepare a rather soft and homogeneous dough. Put it to rise in a warm place for a couple of hours, then add the remaining lard and make two very thin sheets of which one is larger than the other. Place the larger one on a greased baking tray so that it transshields by a couple of cm. Place, on top, the tuma cut into slices and the anchovies into small pieces, then cover it with the other sheet and tuck the dough around the edge to close it. Make holes here and there and put in the oven at high temperature. After about ten minutes, take it out of the oven, brush the surface with a little melted lard and put it back in the oven until it is colored. Serve hot.
Specific materials and equipment used for preparation and conditioning: No specific equipment.
Description of processing, storage, and maturing areas: Bakery laboratory equipped in accordance with current health and hygiene regulations and rooms normally used as kitchens.
Elements proving that the methodologies have been practiced homogeneously and according to traditional rules for a period of no less than 25 years: Bibliographic Reference “The Godfather” by Mario Puzo.
Source Pat Cards: Sicily Region
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Informational contributions : Web, Sicily Region
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