Posted on 03/18/2024 4:52:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Falling on March 19th, St. Joseph’s Day honors this patron saint of fathers and carpenters who is recognized in Catholic and Christian observant destinations, including in Italy. He is not only recognized through religious services but also in culinary offerings.
As an Italian food tradition, this feast day is celebrated with two special pastries, Zeppole di San Giuseppe and Sfingi di San Giuseppe (San Giuseppe is Saint Joseph in the Italian language,).
At first, these St. Joseph’s Day specialties might look the same but they have some differences with preparation and taste.
Zeppole di San Giuseppe are made with choux pastry and both filled and topped with a pastry crème. They are also garnished with amarena cherries and a sprinkling of powdered sugar. Sfingi di San Giuseppe has some slight opposites, in that they are filled with sweetened ricotta cream and garnished with crushed pistachios and candied citrus.
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That’s not fair!
I’ll take a dozen of each.
In the official Litany of Saint Joseph, one of his many titles is, “Terror of Demons.”
One of the shirts....
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It’s s big event in the Philly area.
My mom always bought cream puffs for us!!!!
I did it for my kids to keep the tradition alive.
I hope they do it for their kids one day!
Those are very pretty T-shirts.
La Salle Bakery on Smith street in Providence will have people waiting outside to get in to buy zeppola. My son is stateside for two weeks to take a class and was going out yesterday to try to find an Italian bakery to buy zeppolas. I haven’t found a good Italian bakery since I left Rhode Island.
These days, the only cream puffs are in Congress.
Ping!
You would think that I would have had them.
But, no...
Are there any ‘talian bakeries where you are?
Not here in GreenAcres.
Visited several in the big city but they were all pretendenti
LOL!!
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One time when visiting Philly I stopped in to the above, Isgro's Pastries, for old times sake and bought a dozen pastries to take home, a 2-hour drive. Their sfogliatelli and cannoli are to die for.
None of the pastries made it all the way home.
“None of the pastries made it all the way home.”
Abbondanza!
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