Origin place card
Agerola
Verified history
The source states the recipe survived orally, passed down through generations; its invention/production is limited to the comune. No date is given.
Ingredients
Water, flour, wild fennel, pepper, salt, natural leaven (crescito); almond variant uses butter + almonds.
Method
Hand-formed rings/braids rise ~30 min in open air, dipped ~2 min in boiling water, then baked; very crunchy, fennel-forward.
Why travel for it
A page that should make people want to buy both versions in Agerola and taste which side of the town they prefer: fennel snap or almond crumble.
Editorial warning
History is explicitly oral tradition ('sopravvissuta oralmente'); do not assign a date.