BellaOnline Forums Food and Wine Italian Food SAVIATTA-**NOT SaviARDI!! Cookies

Maybe Saviordi isn't what you wanted after all but you can still try the Mona Lisa bakery in Brooklyn

I don't know how appropriate it is to post this here, but I am British by birth, but half Italian through my Mother's side...I speak Italian and French fluently, and my mother is a cookery teacher, living in Umbria at present....
I'm not saying this to blow my own trumpet, and I apologise if this is the way it comes across...
..But if anyone needs help with translation, recipes or stuff like that, I'd be more than happy to help where I can.... <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Thanks so much! You really put alot of effort in!
They do seem to look the closest to the ones shown from the bakery. I actually remember that one, but they weren't as good as 'Gentile's'! They really don't look much like the first recipe- and the ones I know as 'Ladyfingers'-often used in Tiramisu-are what I know as Saviordi(Saviardi). I think the "Saviatta" may be a Sicilian derivation??
Thanks for your research!

Thanks for the post. They really aren't anything like the Stella D'Oro breakfast treats. i think they have anything quite like them. But thanks anyway!

Sorry...meant to say DON'T believe they make anything like them.

Thanks for the translation(s). He actually may be right as to origination. There is very slight variation in spelling, but that may be the subtle difference in locating the recipe? Does he know of any?

Thanks for the input. At least we BOTH them by that name...and MY grandmother, great-grandmother, great,great aunt, and all my family as well as those who lived in that area of Brooklyn! (So where's the recipes???!!)

That's great. Thanks for the assistance.

-So isn't there ANYONE out there (from NY/NJ, perhaps?) who KNOWS these cookies and might have a recipe for them-before they drift off into oblivion forever? <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

I too have been looking for months for the very same cookie! I just tried a recipe today and it came out like sponge cake (like cassata) and it didnt have the white sheeny top that looks like frosting (when I was a kid I thought it was frosted!) It was dissapointing. I have an uncle down in Florida (where all New Yorkers go to die), and they have authentic Italian bakeries. I may be able to get the recipe through him. We have always called it Savoiardi...the reason you are pronouncing it "saviatta" is because it is probably Napolitana slang...my Dad speaks Napolitan dialect and it sounds like that. For example, they say gannoli for cannoli and galamad for calamari. Please let me know if you find anything and I will do the same.