Pupporina

Category:
Fresh pastries and bakery, biscuit, confectionary and pastry products;

1. Product name:
Pupporina

2. Other names:

3. Short product description:
Pupporina is a long and roundish-shaped bun.

4. Production area:
Bozzano

5. Production status:
r disappeared r at risk r active

6. Production process:
Pupporina are made with flour, egg, sugar, butter, yeast, aniseed, a bit of marsala and sassolino liquor and lemon zest. The method for this traditional dessert is very simple.

7. Materials, equipment and premises used for production:
– Kitchen utensils
– Oven

8. Notes on traditionalism, homogeneity of spread and persistence of production rules over time:
To celebrate St Bartholomew (24 August), the women of Bozzano would customarily prepare a round bun that looked, in the collective imagination, like a breast or “pupporina”. Once ready, the bun was given to the children, who would carry it as part of a procession to St Bartholomew’s chapel to be blessed and eaten. According to local custom, the bun was said to stimulate milk-production in breastfeeding women, hence its name and shape.

9. Production:
Production is limited to personal consumption, but it can also be found at the Sagra della pupporina, which is held in Bozzano in August.