Princess Borghese was a princess as she had married  Prince Camillo Borghese, grandson of Camillo husband of Paolina Bonapart, sister of Napoleon. The Princess, Sicilian by birth, was related to the very noble family of Monroy di Belmonte (in Palermo there still is the beautiful Belmonte Palace). Every year in the spring a large basket would arrive from Palermo full of the most beautiful and flavorful apricots form the gardens of Bagheria. Those that could not be consumed would be dried in the shade so as to keep the scent, flavor and color of the fruit. Then, with these excellent dried apricots, and the peaches from the gardens of Pratica di Mare that had been conserved in syrup, and the pistachios that a nice of the princess grew in her fields of Bronte, Clementina prepared this splendid yet simple dessert of distinctive oriental origins and which recipe had been given to Clementina's mother by a Libyan stranded in Pratica di mare in 1913 after the Italy - Turkey war.