Er primo è pe’ li presciolosi,
er siconno pe’ li sposi,
er terzo pe’ l’innamorati,
er quarto pe’ li disperati….
se ce vole pure er quinto
me sa tanto che sei finto!
er siconno pe’ li sposi,
er terzo pe’ l’innamorati,
er quarto pe’ li disperati….
se ce vole pure er quinto
me sa tanto che sei finto!
(filastrocca con la quale i bambini contavano i bocconi)
Ingredienti per 8 maritozzi:
200 g di farina
1 bustina di lievito di birra
1 uovo
un pizzico di sale
50 g di burro
3 cucchiai colmi di zucchero
un cucchiaio di buccia candied orange or citron
Mix the flour with the yeast as when you prepare the bread dough, add the egg and butter. Knead the dough by combining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Put the dough in a bowl and cover with a cloth, let rise 3 hours, doubled in volume, work the dough long, so that the mixture is smooth. Divide the dough into 8-10 pieces of oval shape. Arrange the sandwiches on a greased plate (or cartaforno) and let it rise a couple of hours. Bake at 250 degrees and cook for 7-8 minutes. Remove from oven and brush with maritozzi 1 tablespoon sugar dissolved in a little water. Put off in the oven for 2-3 minutes to dry the surface. Fill with fresh cream.
CURIOSITY '
Already in Roman times, there were loaves of the largest current maritozzi, which were mixed with flour, eggs, butter (or more probably oil) salt and sweetened by adding honey and raisins, currant would seem to derive from this ancient skill.
It is said that for centuries women were the hole in the saddle bags of leather or fabric of the laborers, away from home all day, they had to bring along the essentials to eat this bread and enriched it was very appropriate.
In the Middle Ages, the size is reduced and these pagnotelle - darker in color because cooked more and the mixture enriched with raisins, pine nuts and candied fruit - become a sort of "soft emergency 'that you ate in Lent, especially when the other sweets were forbidden. "Er maritozzi saint, also known as Lenten was one of the few exceptions granted to the fasting period.
According to later tradition, the gift became the maritozzi good omen that the bride gave her boyfriend on the first Friday of March (today's Valentine's Day at that time fell in the middle of Lent). In this case, the cake had a surface decoration of sugar representing two broken hearts, and often concealed within it a ring or a small gold object. The origin the name derives from the deformation of the burlesque "husband" lovingly called by the bride 'currant' or almost husband. The Roman poet Gioacchino Belli (800) described them as "diamond-shaped bread made of flour, oil, sugar and sometimes candied, or anise, or raisins breads of these ... there is much consumption in Lent"
Today is also called maritozzi Panmarito, Panparito, Maritello depending on the area where it is prepared.
