On Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 4:08:35 PM UTC-5, 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".

Growing up my mother made something called a Chamelle, but it wasn't a cookie. it was more like a large twisted bagel. made from a bread dough it was flavored with anise seeds and boiled before baked. I am looking for a Chamelle recipe but it definitely wasn't a cookie.