Anyone heard of Santa Lucia cake? Or a cake made specifically for Santa Lucia

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'festival' probably around the Veneto region.

Nothing came up with googling.

My Italian shop gave me a box of chestnut flour yesterday, specifically designed for making this cake. She didn't know any more about it but I'd like to find it and take some back to her.

Charlie, are you out there???

 
Castagnaccia (chestnut cake with pine nuts and rosemary) is traditional around the Feast of

Santa Lucia. (Your cookbooks might also call it castagnaccio.) It could in some places carry Lucia's name, as it does (in a rather minimalist recipe) on this website:

http://digilander.libero.it/ItaAto/RicetteDolci.htm

There's a good recipe in The Silver Spoon, and another in David Tanis's new book, A Platter of Figs. Let me know if you can't find one.

Of course, with Italian desserts and regional allegiances and traditions, it's anyone's guess what the lady in the shop actually had in mind.

 
In fact in Lucca, castagnaccio is "a sort of chestnut flour pita, split, with each half wrapped

around sweetened fresh ricotta" (according to Frommer's Florence, Tuscany and Umbria).

 
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