pampepato

/pahm-peh-TAH-toh/
[Italian] plural pampepati

"Pepper bread." A sweetened, ring-shaped bun which will contain pine nuts, raisins almonds and honey, but may also have grape must and, oddly, pepper. Said to have originated in the 15th century in the Corpus Domini monastery in Ferrara, and is traditionally offered at Christmas.

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