This Easter time specialty from Craco was passed down from Antonia Francavilla Spero (b. Craco 1889; d. NY 1961) to her daughter Lena and then to Lena’s daughter Annette Cono Mule. It continues to be made annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This recipe yields: 1 -12″ pie pan, 1-141\/2″ pie pan, & 1-9″ round pie pan. The ingredients used above can only be found in Italian pork stores. The wet and dry basket cheese may only be available in some areas at Easter time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Easter time specialty from Craco was passed down from Antonia Francavilla Spero (b. Craco 1889; d. NY 1961) to her daughter Lena and then to Lena’s daughter Annette Cono Mule. It continues to be made annually. Dough:2 1\/2 lbs … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes-from-members","category-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6606,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6602\/revisions\/6606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dough:
<\/strong>2 1\/2 lbs flour
1 tbsp. salt
1 3\/4 sticks butter melted & cooled
Crumble into flour, .make a well in flour and add
4 beaten eggs
2 oz. oil
1 cu. Warm water, add as needed
Knead until smooth ball forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Filling:<\/strong>
3 links semi dry sausage cut into small pieces
(You can use hot or sweet or a combination, remove casing of sausage).
3 lbs ricotta
3\/4-lb mozzarella
3\/4 wet basket cheese
1\/2 dry basket cheese
6-8 eggs, 2 egg whites, reserve yolk for top brushing.
Fresh parsley
Grated romano cheese
Mix well
Use a deep 12″ pizza pan
Roll out dough, fill with mixture, roll out cover, crimp edges, prick with fork, brush with beaten egg yolk.
Bake 375 1 hr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n