Baking, family style
Sunday afternoon, during our family Zoom session, Barbara mentioned that she and Aunt Sadie would get together soon to begin baking traditional pizza rustica and Easter dolls. Everybody had something to say about his or her own family traditions. One of the highlights of our discussion, though, was Roseanne (LaCosta) Losinsky's mother Eleanor's recipe for ricotta pie. First, she showed us a copy beautifully, poignantly inscibed on a cutting board...a gift from her late husband. It sounded much like our pizza rustica but with more ricotta...a lot more. I asked her to send it, so that I could post it here on the family blog. That made me remember talking to Diana Lynn (Fidelle) Boyle about the ricotta pie she makes for Easter, a recipe from Rocci. And we got to talking about all the seasonal recipes we still make each year. So I thought I would just gather up some family recipes to share with you all, including my sister-in-law's recipes for Cheareg, a ...