Milk Pan di Campobasso is a Christmas dome cake scented inside and out with Molise Milk liqueur and finished with pale white chocolate and hazelnut coating. This home formula makes one 8-inch (20-cm) hemisphere, about 10 slices. Allow 40 minutes to prepare, 55 to 65 minutes to bake, 2 hours to cool, and 1 hour to glaze and set. It is not the proprietary Iannetta formula.

Frittata di Peperoni e Salsiccia (Italian Molise Pepper and Sausage Frittata) A frittata di peperoni e salsiccia is not eggs with things stirred into them. It is a dish in which the sausage enters the pan before anything else and then supplies the fat that cooks the peppers, most of the salt that seasons the eggs, and the film that sits between egg and metal. Nothing else goes into that pan. That one decision rewrites the recipe. No olive oil, no butter. The peppers soften in

Scapece Molisana (Molise Marinated Fried Fish) Scapece molisana is fried fish kept in vinegar, and almost everyone reading that sentence pictures the wrong dish. There is no bath here. The vinegar is bound with dry bread crumb into a damp yellow paste, coloured and perfumed with saffron, and packed around each piece so that nothing swims and nothing drains. That single structural choice separates this dish from every other marinated fish on the Italian coast. The Molise coast