Ladies Of The Lot Pizza
Saturday my wife and I worked the San Antonio
pizza party. San Antonio is a small
Italian church located in “little Italy” section of Cincinnati where many
Italian immigrants settled. Over the
years most have moved to the suburbs but still return for Sunday mass and to
support the church. Around 1930 San
Antonio began a parish festival and they served pizza. Not just any pizza but one they brought
with them from southern Italy. It’s a
very simple recipe, basic dough covered very lightly with a sauce made with fresh
basil parsley garlic oregano sea salt and olive oil. The sauce is made in the morning throughout
the day the ingredients meld into this special sauce. The pizza is topped with a very light sprinkle of
pecorino cheese. Just before baking they
blessed the pizza by dipping their fingers in olive oil and shaking over the
pizza. When it’s baked they were
carried across the street to the lot where the festival was held. Thus the “Ladies Of The Lot” pizza.
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