Today, February 4th in Forlì, the Patron Saint is celebrated, and for the occasion, the city fills with stalls offering, among other delicacies, the flatbread of Our Lady of the Fire, the patron saint of the small town in Romagna. I came to know about it by chance and researched it online and discovered that on this festive day, the flatbread of Our Lady of the Fire, a simple sweet leavened bread with anise seeds in the dough, sprinkled with granulated sugar, and sometimes decorated with a central stripe of custard in the more modern version, is given as a propitious and auspicious gift.

Behind this simple recipe lies a story that tells that many centuries ago, during a famine that struck the people of Forlì, the offerings made by the believers to the Virgin were sold, and with the proceeds, the ingredients needed to make a bread, a sweet focaccia, were bought for the poorest affected by that long period of poverty.
Thus, this recipe was born, which over time has become one of the main symbols of the patronal festival of the city of Forlì.
Our Lady of the Fire or Blessed Virgin of the Fire has been for many years the Patron Saint of Forlì, and the devotion to her began on the night of February 4th-5th, 1428, when a furious fire broke out in the school run by Master Bernardino da Riopetroso, leaving intact only one wall where there was a woodcut on paper depicting the Virgin and Child. On the following day, February 8th, the sacred image was carried in procession to the Cathedral in thanksgiving for the miracle, and from there, it was a short step to naming the Saint as the Patron…

If you don’t have fresh brewer’s yeast, but only the dry dehydrated one, remember that one 25-gram cube corresponds to a 7-gram sachet, the ratio is about 3:1, more precisely 3.29. If you want the perfect formula to calculate the proportions, follow this little formula:
— if you want to convert the amount of fresh brewer’s yeast to dry:
g of fresh yeast indicated in the recipe ingredients: 3.29 = g of dry yeast

–– if you want to convert the amount of dry brewer’s yeast to fresh:
g of fresh yeast indicated in the recipe ingredients x 3.29 = g of dry yeast

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OUR LADY OF THE FIRE