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posted Friday, January 8, 2010 |
Legend has it that during the great Sicilian famine of 1582, a large group went to the church to pray to 'Santa Lucia' for an end to the famine. While they prayed, a ship came into the Syracuse (Siracusa, Sicily) harbor filled with wheat and they were saved. They were so famished that they did not process the wheat into flour. Instead, they boiled the unprocessed wheat berries, and called it Cuccia or Cuccidata.
See picture of La Cuccia below - usually a little sugar, honey, or chocolate is added to give it flavor:
Labels: cuccia, cuccidata, santa lucia, sicilian famine 1582
