Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.
How Made Factory-made long strands pierced with a hole measuring from ⅛ to ⅜ inch (3 mm to 1 cm) in diameter for the larger strands. The term candela usually refers to the latter. The pasta is boiled in abundant salted water.
Also Known As In Lazio (Ariccia), but also in the Marche, cannacce; small sizes are bucatini, fidelini bucati, foratini, and perciatellini; medium sizes are bucatini, maccheroncelli, mezzanelli, mezzani, and perciatelli; and the largest sizes are boccolotti, ziti or zite, zitoni, and zituane.
