Sporcamuss Pugliesi con Crema Pasticcera e Miele
Bari and Altamura, Puglia
Literally 'dirty mouth' — sfoglia di pasta sfoglia (pre-baked puff pastry sheets) layered with crema pasticcera (vanilla pastry cream) and fried in olive oil until the pastry blisters and the cream begins to caramelise at the edges. Eaten standing, from paper, at the bakery — the cream inevitably escapes and 'dirties' the mouth. A Pugliese street pastry specific to the Altamura and Bari areas, made with the local olive oil rather than butter for frying, giving a distinctively different crispness.