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Traditional dish, this recipe of ancient traditions represents one of the few examples of sweet and sour in local cooking. This preparation is typical of Christmas Eve, a day in which meat is not consumed.a fundamental ingredient is wine grapes, both white and red, the bunches chosen during harvesting will be put in the attic in order to be dried in a natural way. The dish is a composite of spaghetti seasoned with bread crumbs, raisins, anchovies, all flavored with some sprigs of oregano. Even though in the known local bibliography there are no mentions, in the territory it is of common use and affirmed. The description of this preparation made by an eighty years old man, who described how it was prepared by his mother, dates back this preparation to a tradition of at least one hundred years in the commune of Teggiano, whereas in other neighboring communes it remains a little known preparation.
