Christmas Sweet Bread, Love Story
The first one is a love story: it is the XVth century, the Court of the Duke Ludovico Maria Sforza.
Ughetto,
the hawk
breeder of the Duke, loves the studying
and the solitude. But he especially loves the beautiful daughter of
the baker, Adalgisa. Their love, as it often happened back then,
was opposed by Ughetto's family. So he could only meet the
beautiful Adalgisa at night, when he could avoid her family
surveillance. Moreover,
Adalgisa at night was
up too, because she had to attend to the
bread making in her father bakery.
Unfortunately, a series misfortunes happened to the baker all at
once. He started loosing many clients, another bakery opened up
nearby, then the bakery boy fell ill and Adalgisa was forced to do
all the heavy chores. Then Ughetto had
an idea: he offered himself as the baker boy and thought to improve
the bread adding some butter to the dough: there were no
money to buy the butter?... no problem... The young man sold a
couple of beautiful hawks and bought the butter he needed. It was
an immediate success and it grew even more when Ughetto added some
sugar to his recipe.
Some glutton found out and the word got around in the neighborhood.
Ughetto, happy to see a smile again on his lover's lips, one night
added some candied citron and eggs to part of the dough, which was
ready for cooking. It was a very special bread and everybody liked
it. At Christmas, the young man had another idea and added some
raisins. It was a huge
success. Naturally at this point Ughetto and Adalgisa's dream came
true and they could get married.
Their secret soon became common knowledge; soon enough in every
block bakers made big shapes and big quantities of the sweet bread
with raisins.
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