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Simple to make and not too sweet, buccellato is a traditional dessert bread of Lucca. There’s even a local saying about it: Chi viene a Lucca e non mangia il buccellato è come non ci fosse mai stato (“Anyone who comes to Lucca and doesn’t eat buccellato is as if they’ve never been there”.) 

The name buccellato comes from the term for “morsel” used in ancient Rome. Back then, buccellatum was a donut-shaped loaf of individual rolls baked together. The modern version, th