Suddhi

Ingredients Barley flour, salt, and water.

How Made The flour is sifted with a pinch of salt onto a wooden board and kneaded long and vigorously with water. The dough is left to rest, then rolled out into a sheet, not too thin, from which flat noodles of variable width are cut. They are boiled in abundant salted water.

Also Known As No alternative names.

How Served As pastasciutta, with traditional local sauces, usually based on pork.

Where Found Sicily, typical of Canicattini Bagni.

Remarks This rare pasta was made in the province of Siracusa, in particular at Canicattini Bagni. In fact, the precious flour of a particular type of durum wheat grown in eastern Sicily was used to make the pasta. The use of other flours, such as the barley flour indicated here, was likely associated with famines, plagues, or other extraordinary events. In Sicily, unlike in poorer regions, homemade pasta was usually made with eggs and wheat flour, and the use of alternative flours, such as barley or legume, was almost unknown.