Cassata Siciliana or Italian Strawberry Cream Cake Recipe

Julie Richardson wrote a cookbook devoted to old-fashioned cakes, the ones you remember your grandmother cooking or at the very least, bringing home from local bakery.   “Vintage Cakes” Speed Press 2012) is filled with gems that are not only nostalgic but are bit as good today as you remember.   in point: The Cassata Siciliana or Italian Strawberry Cheesecake, called an Italian Cream Cake.  This has a quite a history.  Some historians would like to attach it to the period when Sicily was under rule in the 10th They supported their point of view using the Arabic word qas’ah from which “cassata” was to have been derived.  It means and the logic was that the bowl was…