Paste your Google Webmaster Tools verification code here

The baba

The baba is a sweet treat that as an immigrant from northern sources, has become a traditional neapolitan cake of neapolitan pastry manufacture exclusive, which will protect the basic ingredients of the recipe that determine the flavor and essence. This cake is considered a typical neapolitan, a veritable food totem, as it is not only a sweet mystic and ritual, but is entered in the language, in festive meals, and in everyday life neapolitan.

Was the case in the Baba’s birth; to invent it at the beginning of the eighteenth century, was a Polish King, Stanislaus Leszczynski. Legend has it that he had the idea of dunking in Madeira, a fortified wine produced in Malaga, a kugelopf, the traditional dessert of central Europe, which resembles a cake. It is a sweet, simple shape that differs from that sweets were prepared so complex shapes of Rococo inspiration. King dedicated his creation to Ali Baba, his favorite character in the tales of the thousand and one nights.

After the King’s death, the territories of Lorraine returned to France and took French citizenship babà. The noble sweet, could not arrive at Versailles, and there was much appreciated by Queen Antoinette, which spread throughout the city.

If the Baba is born in Paris is certainly rising in Naples, and this second birth is decisive for the history of a cake that owes its reputation mainly to the Neapolitan version. In its long journey, “light“, gets rid of raisins and candied fruits, buy new identity and by adding a “b” will become babbà, acquiring the name a neapolitan identity.

 

 










Latest posts

  • Blue Gold

    The green emergency on blue gold is a quantity and quality issue. The availability of drinking water decreases and today it is increasingly polluted and contaminated.
    From the point of view

  • Discovering the Crowdfunding

    Let us try to understand the world of the “collection 2.0.” and shed light on a phenomenon that has spread in recent years but that is rooted in time.
    The Crowfounding

  • The problem of noise pollution

    Among the many forms of pollution that may affect our cities, we have noise pollution, often underestimated.
    It is difficult to consider the noise a real source of pollution, yet we

  • Greenwashing

    Greenwashing, literally “wash with the green”, is a phenomenon that indicates the communication strategy of certain businesses, organizations or institutions designed to build self-image false-positive from the environmental effects, in

  • The fashion of the Food Truck

    In the Big Apple, they have multiplied enormously the gourmet food trucks, a trend imported from California, exploded in recent years across the United States.
    Food truck today he talks a

  • The dangers of Deforestation

    Deforestation is growing at a frightening pace, and often outside the constraints of the law. It is a phenomenon of alarming relevance not only for the more concerned to protect

Social network

Utilizzando il sito, accetti l'utilizzo dei cookie da parte nostra. maggiori informazioni

Questo sito utilizza i cookie per fornire la migliore esperienza di navigazione possibile. Continuando a utilizzare questo sito senza modificare le impostazioni dei cookie o cliccando su "Accetta" permetti il loro utilizzo.

Chiudi