Looking for a recipe. Love these cookies but coming from Irish household -
have no idea how to make.

JOAN MC NAMARA wrote:

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.

--
Reg

Reg wrote:
JOAN MC NAMARA wrote:

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.

--
Reg

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 www.allrecipes.com will result in a variety
of recipes for both.

wrote:

Reg wrote:

JOAN MC NAMARA wrote:


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.

Sorry, but they are in no way a bread. They're a type
of cookie.

--
Reg

wrote:
Reg wrote:
JOAN MC NAMARA wrote:

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.

Could be either biscotti or some other form.
http://tinyurl.com/yhvuzv or http://tinyurl.com/yhfgvg

Biscotti are slices of a half-oval shape of a "toasted" sweet bread.

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. http://tinyurl.com/vhf8p

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.

Spelled, most often, pizzelle (no "s") and pronounced
"peet-zeh-leh"
Pizzelle irons and examples http://tinyurl.com/wvsv6

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."

No. Cannoli are made with deep-fried pastry crusts.
http://tinyurl.com/y3v5tr

http://italianfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa020701.htm
If you don't know Kyle Phillips and his Italian food
writing, you're in for a treat. He's very knowledgeable and
his writing is very accessible.

Or
curved around a cone shaped dowel to make the sugar cookie cones at
your local ice cream parlor.

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. http://tinyurl.com/voowh

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 www.allrecipes.com will result in a variety
of recipes for both.

Or, better yet, try
http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/recipe.html searching
for *any* recipes.

Pastorio

On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:02:45 GMT, "JOAN MC NAMARA"
wrote:

Looking for a recipe. Love these cookies but coming from Irish household -
have no idea how to make.

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

Reg wrote:
wrote:

Reg wrote:

JOAN MC NAMARA wrote:


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.

Sorry, but they are in no way a bread. They're a type
of cookie.

--
Reg

Could be ylour second language interference