guastedda

Sicilian

Etymology

From Old Northern French wastel, equivalent of Old French gastel, whence modern French gâteau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwasˈtɛɖ.ɖa/
• Hyphenation: guas‧tè‧ḍḍa

Noun

guasteḍḍa f (plural guasteḍḍi)

1. (cooking) a traditional Sicilian bread cake filled with spleen and ricotta

References

• Traina, Antonino (1868) “guastedda”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1924

Further reading

• vastedda on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vastedda on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• “Guastedde ennesi”, in www.lacucinaitaliana.it‎^[1] (in Italian), 2016 January 15, archived from the original on 12 September 2022