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brooklyn1

On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 17:01:28 -0800 (PST), wrote:

>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.

http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/110...its-Chamelle-s