The “Coccoi”, decorated with an egg for the festivities

Coccoi: typical durum-wheat flour bread. In Oristano area, it is called "pan’e scetti". It can even be prepared with semolina (pan’e simbula). This bread used to be characteristic of festivities and the bakers where admired for the ability and fantasy like artists with which they decorated the paste (a tradition that is coming back).

Nowadays, bakeries sell Coccoi every day: it does not have a very precise shape, but its surface is decorated with numerous little horn. “Su coccoi con s’ou” (the coccoi with the egg) is a specialty in common with diverse localities of Sardinia. It consists of enriching the bread with an entire hen's egg on the center and colored decorations with saffron.

In Dualchi, in some recurrences, an ancient custom imposes to give to small kids coccoi in a doll shape (called “coccoi a pippìa").