Mostaccioli of Soriano Calabro large shapes

Soriano Calabro is known for its confectionery vocation, it owes its fame to the mostaccioli or mastazzola, compact biscuits of various shapes and decorated with tinfoil. There are traditionally about fifty shapes and forms of which the most common are the palm "a Parma", the "u Panaru" basket, the vase "a Grasta", the heart "u cori", the swordfish "u pisci sword ", the siren" a siren ".

According to Luigi Accattatis in his vocabulary of the Calabrian dialect, mostaccioli are "Mustazzuolu or mostacciolo is a dessert introduced by the Arabs that is made of fine flour mixed with honey or mulled wine, seasoned with various spices and baked in the oven. this berlingozzo, more than on other occasions, in marriages.

More precise is Giovan Battista Marzano "mostaccioli are homemade sweets made with flour, honey, cooked must, seasoned with drugs, in a rhomboid shape in puppets, baskets and the like; the name derives from the Latin mustaceus or mustaceum, from mustacea, an ancient In any case, the origin of the mostaccioli is uncertain, the legend entrusts its diffusion to a monk, who appeared and then disappeared into thin air, who would have generously offered them to the population of Soriano. Domenico, whose sanctuary was a place of pilgrimage and worship, who becomes the patron saint of mastazzolari and the master craftsman is called "u monacu".

Historically, the introduction of mostaccioli is attributed to the Carthusian monks of the monastery of Serra San Bruno and then to the Dominicans of the convent of San Domenico, built in 1510, who taught, supported and promoted the art of pastry and confectionery among local artisans. flourishing between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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