Thin pitta containing seeds from bushes.
Name - Origin
Kokkonópitta was a thin pitta containing seeds from bushes.
The word kokkónes in the Cypriot dialect means seeds or kernels.
s. pitta, pl. pittes
Kokkonopittes contained either trimithia (terebinth) seeds or šinnos seeds and were called trimithopittes (or trimithopoúlles, trimithénes, trimithotés) and šinnopittes respectively. Trimithopittes contained raisins and were baked in the oven until they would turn into rusks. In many villages they would be baked in the oven once they had been placed on sycamore leaves. Šinnopittes contained šinnos seeds, raisins and oil and were made with sourdough starter and a firm dough. They would be baked in the oven. Kokkonopittes were about ½ cm thick (Kypri TD, Protopapa KA, 2003).
Additional information and bibliography
Kypri I. - Protopapa K. A. (2003), Παραδοσιακά ζυμώματα της Κύπρου. Η χρήση και η σημασία τους στην εθιμική ζωή, Publications of the Centre for Scientific Research, XVIII, Nicosia, Nicosia.
Demetra Dimitriou
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