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Looking for an old Italian cookie recipe
Steve in Virginia wrote:
> Goomba38 wrote:
> > Steve in Virginia wrote:
> >
> > > Does anyone know what I'm referring to? I'd love to get the recipe,
> > > but all the old Italians are gone, and I don't recall if anyone ever
> > > wrote the recipe down. I just remember that you had to beat the
> > > daylight out of the batter in a stand mixer for something like an
> > > hour!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated...and would probably get
> > > you a batch of these delicious cookies to boot.
> > >
> >
> > In my family they were called "cha-melles" or something sounding like
> > that but spelled who knows how? You know how dialect varies. I never got
> > a recipe either 
> > Much like a harder Stella D'Oro brand Regina or biscotti but with a hard
> > shiny glaze on the top. My father loved to dunk 'em in coffee or wine.
> >
> > I can make strufoli easily.. but I'd love to find the recipe for those
> > "chamelles".
>
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> I never heard them referred to as "chamelles" but it sounds exactly
> like the cookies I was talking about. Yes, the tops were shiny and
> sometimes developed a few fine cracks on the surface as the cookies
> cooled. The old Italians in my house dunked in coffee and wine all
> the time, too. When they got hard, my sister and I would place two or
> three in a bowl, pour cold milk, or milk with a little sweetened coffee
> over them and eat them for breakfast.
>
> My sister and I have been trying to recreate the recipe. We've got the
> taste down (though I think it needs a touch more almond extract), but
> the consistancy to still a bit too soft, and the dough make flatter
> cookie than the original rounded oval shape. But we're still working
> on it.
>
> I'll keep searching for a recipe and post a copy for you when I find
> one.
Perhaps he
http://recipes.epicurean.com/combo_r...type =Italian
Sheldon
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