CASTAGNOLE

Castagnole are a Carnival sweets that you can find everywhere in Italy but their origins are from the north part of the country.   After mixing  the most important ingredients: eggs, sugar, flour and butter little balls are created. Then they are fried in hot oil. Castagnole are served covered with icing sugar or sometimes with honey. We have two kinds of them: one without stuffing and one with stuffing of  vanilla cream or milk cream. Another variation is to bake them.

Castagnole recipe is surely very old: a 1700 manuscript was found in Viterbo Record Office where four Castagnole recipes are described and one of it is about baking them. Generally people think that to bake them (to make sweets softer)  is a recent use but this manuscript reveals that this is not true.

1.Castagnole have their origins in

a)    Sicily

b)    The north of Italy

c)    Everywhere in Italy

d)    Sardinia

2. Castagnole can

a)    Be covered with chocolate

b)    Be covered with honey

c)    Be full of chocolate cream

d)    Be full of ice cream

3. Castagnole old recipes were found

a)    In an old monastery

b)    In a Church Office

c)    In a Record Office

d)    In a Sales Office