Our mother, Josie, was the champ of fresh pasta. She would turn out delicious homemade macaroni, gnocchi, passatelli with unrivaled speed. However baking was not really her thing – except for her Easter Sweet Bread (and oddly her molasses crumb cake). At Easter, I still think about her dense, delicious version of this Italian tradition and of course, to this day, I still cannot quite recreate her magic.

I do have a version of her recipe – a handwritten sheet of paper tucked into her old Italian cookbook.

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