Looking for a recipe. Love these cookies but coming from Irish household - have no idea how to make.
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17 years ago
Looking for a recipe. Love these cookies but coming from Irish household - have no idea how to make.
Never heard of Italian anise cookies per se, but it sounds like you're talking about biscotti.
Biscotti are slices of a half-oval shape of a "toasted" sweet bread. Another Italian cookie is "pizelles." They are flat, round, thin wafer-like cookies, 3 or 5 inch diameter, made in appliances like a waffle press. They can include anise extract instead of vanilla extract. When warm, they are sometimes shaped around a wooden dowel to make a tube for a filling of cheese and sugar to make "cannoli." Or curved around a cone shaped dowel to make the sugar cookie cones at your local ice cream parlor.
Both biscotti and pizzelles have a variety of recipes, with different flavors, including cocoa. Most differences in flavors depends upon the extract used. A search on
Sorry, but they are in no way a bread. They're a type of cookie.
Could be either biscotti or some other form. or
They're bis-cotti - twice-cooked, from Latin "bi" (or some variant) which means "two," and "cotto" which means "cooked." First as a loaf-shaped sweet bread, then sliced and re-baked. (Pronounced "beece-koh-tee" and one would be a "biscotto."). But there's a chance for confusion here because Italians call certain kinds of cookies biscotti, as well. Much as the English call what Americans call "cookies" biscuits.
Spelled, most often, pizzelle (no "s") and pronounced "peet-zeh-leh" Pizzelle irons and examples
No. Cannoli are made with deep-fried pastry crusts.
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The still-warm cookies can be rolled like that, but using pizzelle for that purpose isn't optimum. They get soggy fairly quickly as ice cream melts. The more usual ice cream cones.
Or, better yet, try searching for *any* recipes.
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Are they white? Maybe on the thick side? 3/8-1/2 in. And by any chance have you ever seen them with a design imprinted? If so they may be German Anise Christmas Cookies (Springerle)
My best friends grandmother (Italian-Armanian) use to make them every year. I LOVE these cookies and I make them every year.
So, if you think these are those you seek. Then google German Anise Christmas Cookies (Springerle) David
Could be ylour second language interference
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