{"id":574,"date":"2018-07-13T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T09:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/?p=574"},"modified":"2018-07-16T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:01:42","slug":"corsican-chestnut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/chataigne-corse\/","title":{"rendered":"Corsican chestnut flour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A gratta e a manghj\u00e0, basta a cuminci\u00e0\" (To scratch and eat, just start)!<\/p>\n

La chestnut<\/strong> and its flour <\/strong>having once played a key role in the economy Corsica<\/strong>the flour <\/strong>is still done by hand. It is widely used in Corsica <\/strong>for its exemplary quality and taste. This is no doubt due to the geographical location of the Corsica<\/strong>Between the sea and the mountains, we find a diversity of climates and soils that make the richness of each production area.<\/p>\n

It is for all these reasons that many Corsican dishes and pastries are based on chestnut flour<\/strong>. Here are a few local delicacies:<\/p>\n

Pisticcini<\/h3>\n

Named differently depending on the region, they are made from a mixture of Corsican chestnut flour, water and salt and cooked in an oiled frying pan. They are small fritters, 5 cm in diameter and a few millimetres thick.<\/p>\n

Flan with chestnut flour<\/h3>\n

It is a kind of flan, slightly thicker, to which is added some chestnut flour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Corsican chestnut flour cake<\/h3>\n

Like a yoghurt cake, but replace the traditional flour with chestnut flour.<\/p>\n

Other Corsican cakes<\/h2>\n

L'ambrucciatta<\/h3>\n

It's a little brocciu tartlet.<\/p>\n

Fiadone<\/h3>\n

It's like an Ambrucciata but without the pasta. Find the fiadone recipe<\/strong> here.<\/p>\n

Caccavellu<\/h3>\n
\"Canistrelli\"

Canistrellis<\/p><\/div>\n

It's a kind of \"Canistron\" (cake with aniseed seeds) in the shape of a crown on which 1, 2 or 4 hard-boiled eggs are traditionally placed. These Cacavelli are mainly found for Easter celebrations.<\/p>\n

Strikes<\/h3>\n

Between the doughnut and the dry biscuit, fried in oil and sprinkled with sugar.<\/p>\n

The Canistrelli<\/h3>\n

A must! Whether with aniseed, white wine, raisins, almonds or plain, canistrelli, these fragrant little biscuits, are a real treat!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"A gratta e a manghj\u00e0, basta a cuminci\u00e0\" (To scratch and eat, just start)! Chestnuts and chestnut flour played a vital role in the Corsican economy in the past, and the flour is still produced in the traditional way. It's widely used in Corsica for its exemplary quality and taste. This is undoubtedly due to Corsica's geographical location, between the sea and the mountains, with a diversity of climates and soils that make each production area so rich. It's for all these reasons that many of Corsica's dishes and pastries are made with the best ingredients. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"La ch\u00e2taigne Corse tr\u00e8s utilis\u00e9e pour la patisserie.","_seopress_titles_desc":"La ch\u00e2taigne et sa farine ayant autrefois jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le primordial dans l\u2019\u00e9conomie Corse, la farine se fait toujours de fa\u00e7on artisanale. Elle est \u00e9norm\u00e9ment utilis\u00e9e en Corse pour sa qualit\u00e9 et son go\u00fbt exemplaires.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":null,"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-specialites","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corsevacances.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}