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The passage from Carnival to Lent was marked by the tolling of
San Martino bell, that around eleven p.m. on Shrove Tuesday
informed the people that in one hour the prohibitive time would
have started. This was a moment of transition, people passed
from the last day of Carnival nosh-up to the first day of Lent
fasting.n that period the Church forbade people meat and any
other food by-product, like: eggs, cheese, milk, ricotta cheese.
On Ash Wednesday morning, after the church, women used to go
home to “a ascequà a ieratta ches”. They passed a grater
on the fire to destroy every remaining of cheese that could be
mixed to the bread. This one, had to be grated to make “a
sagne pa seratezz”.
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