Stelle

Ingredients Durum-wheat flour and water.

How Made Factory-made tiny stars. They are cooked in broth.

Also Known As Astri (stars), fiori di sambuco (elder flowers), and stellette, stellettine, and stelloni for the largest, though they are still small enough to be considered pastina.

How Served In broth.

Where Found Widespread.

Remarks The name means literally “stars.” The term is old: it was used in the sixteenth century, in Messisbugo,²⁴² for a sweet star-shaped pasta that was clearly fresh rather than dry.