Kitchen

[STEW]

ANYBODY MAKE ITALIAN EASTER PIE

[curlywhitedog]

I do. I use my mother in laws recipe which calls for 17 small eggs if I remember correctly.

Maria

[Sooner]

Is this what they call a ""cheese pie""? I had a piece of one once and it was great! Like a cheese cake but firmer and not real sweet. I would love to know how to do that!

[faeriemoon]

Which kind? Ham? Rice? Wheat? Ricotta? Italian Cream?

[Sooner]

The one I had was just plain cheese--like cheesecake only not too sweet (like some of today's cheesecakes). It was a dessert. Ohhh! One like that without sugar and ham and onion would be a wonderful buffet item!

[icuryy]

On 3/30/2014 faeriemoon said:

Which kind? Ham? Rice? Wheat? Ricotta? Italian Cream?

OMG!..I love them all

[Gerri S]

OMG, my Mother in law (in Heaven now) was born and raised in Italy, she made an Easter cake she called in her Barese dialect "Pezzo Dulce", which I think means 'a piece of sweet'. My husband always referred to it as "sweet pie". It was silky & creamy and had chocolate chunks here and there. I am NOT a baker but the ingredients were that of a cheese cake, eggs, ricotta, sugar, vanilla, and a small amount of something she called "coffee sport" which seemed to be her version of a home made coffee liqueur, some lemon zest and Hershey's chocolate KISSES, all of this was poured into a large 16" wide spring form pan and baked. Today it would cost $$$$$ to make, like the recipe above from curlywhitedog (17 eggs), the ingredients were plentiful, lots of everything!

Unfortunately we never got the recipe. But the flavor of that SWEET PIE, is still saved in our memory banks.

[VaBelle35]

My grandmother used to make the grano (durum wheat berries) one and I make a ricotta one.

I would like to find her grano recipe. I think I have it somewhere I just have to dig around. I finally found durum wheat berries on Amazon. Barry's sells it. But it is not always in stock.

[little miss sunshine]

Martha Stewart makes one with ricotta cheese. It's in her Baking book. Sounds just like what you gals are talking about. Hers doesn't have chocolate in it. But, the real Italian one has bits of chocolate.

[dfyre]

I love the grain version. While I've made it a few times, it's pretty labor intensive (pastry is not my strong suit) and I'm the only one who eats it, so I buy one for Easter at the local Italian bakery and dole out pieces until it's gone. My family always made "pizza rustica" which is a savory meat pie - sort of like a quiche but with chunks of ham, pepperoni, salami and cheese.