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Sfogliatella
Italian filled pastry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sfogliatella (Italian: [sfoʎʎaˈtɛlla]; pl.: sfogliatelle; Neapolitan: sfugliatella [ʃfuʝʝaˈtɛllə], pl. sfugliatelle), often conflated with a similar pastry known as a lobster tail,[1][2] is a shell-shaped pastry with a sweet or creamy filling, originating in the Campania region of Italy.[3][4] Sfogliatella means 'small, thin leaf/layer', as the pastry's texture resembles stacked leaves.[citation needed]
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Origin
Sfogliatella Santa Rosa, from which the current sfogliatella was born, was created in the monastery of Santa Rosa in Conca dei Marini, Campania, in the 17th century. Pasquale Pintauro, a pastry chef from Naples, acquired the original recipe and began selling the pastries in his shop in 1818.[5]
Regional variations
In Neapolitan cuisine, there are two types of the pastry: sfogliatella riccia ('curly'), the standard version,[6] and sfogliatella frolla, a less labour-intensive pastry that uses a shortcrust dough and does not form the sfogliatella's characteristic layers.
A variation named coda d'aragosta (in the United States "lobstertail") also exists, with the same crust but a sweeter filling.[7]
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