La Vita è Dolce by Clark Letitia;

Author:Clark, Letitia;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books (UK)
Published: 2020-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chiacchiere

Carnival in Sardinia means fritti. A handful of stalls pop up in the piazza, giant cauldrons of oil bubbling away in the background, the slightly frazzled boys up front, shining delicately with a fine film of fat and frantically handing out grease-stained white paper bags of fresh ring doughnuts and white cardboard trays yielding lengths of Zippole (a long, snake-like coil of fried dough perfumed with orange and dusted with sugar). More deliciously and generally made at home and brought as gifts, are the endless trays of Chiacchiere, rustling expectantly and silently shedding snowdrifts of icing (confectioner’s) sugar as they are passed around the table.

Chiacchiere, ‘little gossips’ or ‘chatter’, are a classic sweet of Carnival all over Italy. They are essentially little rags of dough, enriched with a little egg and some alcohol (in Sardinia with the local Vernaccia di Oristano), rolled out thinly, cut in random fashion and then deep-fried and dusted with snowdrifts of icing sugar. The Vernaccia gives them a deliciously almondy note, but if you can’t find it you can use sherry, Marsala or Vin Santo, or just plain old white wine. These little, crumbly, crisp, sweet and savoury morsels are deliciously moreish, and known by a number of charming different names including Bugie (lies), Frappe, Cenci (rags) or Crostoli.

You can serve these on their own as a snack, or with coffee, or even better, with little glasses of Vernaccia/Vin Santo and a big bowl of whipped, sweetened mascarpone for communal dunking.

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