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a crispy tube that taught the mafia what to leave behind when fleeing a hit.
means A Sicilian dessert consisting of a crisp fried pastry tube filled with sweetened ricotta, often studded with chocolate chips or candied fruit.
from From Italian, the plural of cannolo, meaning 'little tube' or 'little pipe' — a diminutive of canna, 'cane' or 'reed,' since the dough was traditionally wrapped around reed sections to fry into its hollow shape. Canna traces back to Latin canna and ultimately to a Semitic root for 'reed' (a relative of the same word that gives us 'cane' and 'canal'). The shells were rolled on river cane long before metal tubes existed, so the name simply describes the thing: a small reed-shaped sweet.
- name origin
- Means little tube in Italian
- sicilian roots
- Born in Sicily, possibly during Arab rule
- fill late
- Shells filled fresh or they go soggy
- ricotta star
- Sheep's milk ricotta is the classic filling
- carnival treat
- Originally a festive Carnevale indulgence
cannoli siciliani — sicilian pastry tubes filled with ricotta cream, traditional from palermo and messina since medieval times
cannoli di ricotta — venetian version with candied fruits, popular in venice's pastry shops
mike's pastry cannoli — boston's north end bakery, famous for their oversized cannoli since 1946