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Pignolata is a common dessert consisting of a particular biscuit covered with white lemon

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Pignolata Messina is just one of the common Sicilian sweets of the island: it has absolutely nothing to envy to cannoli as well as cassata. It belongs to the Sicilian Circus dishes that can be delighted in all year round as it is handcrafted by Sicilian bakery. If the classic pignolata - the soft one sprinkled with honey so to speak - is mainly made in the carnival period, the black as well as white one is, as a matter of fact, constantly readily available. But exactly how was it born, how to make it at home and also where to acquire it? Allow's discover more.Among the regular Messina desserts, besides the granita the pignolata sticks out. This was born as an inadequate dessert made with economical ingredients such as eggs, flour and lard. Yet the beginnings of Sicilian bread - and often voluntarily - can be discovered in the Arab dominance, and also the pignolata is no exception. The Arabs utilized to make fried dough balls covered with honey. The birth of the well-known Sicilian