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From: dmferrell@happy.uccs.edu
Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
Subject: Anise Cookies--Italian Pizzelles
Date: 29 Mar 1994 20:18:24 -0500
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Message-ID: <2nak10$20@s.ms.uky.edu>
Italian Pizzelle using anise
3 cups sugar
3 1/2 cups eggs
2 1/4 melted shortening (use a combination of butter, margarine, and Crisco)
5 tbsp grated orange peel
3 tbsp grated lemon peel
3 tsp orange extract
2 tsp lemon extract
1 cup artificial vanilla extract
1 tsp anise oil or 1 bottle anise extract (not as strong flavor as the oil)
7-8 cups flour
You need a pizzelle iron to make the cookies. These can be found at
Safeway or any good Deli or specialty food or cooking store. They are
about $50.
Whip the eggs until very frothy. Add the sugar and cream well. Add the
melted shortening--be sure it is not hot--and cream well. Add the
flavorings and mix well.
I use anise oil because the flavor is more intense--use just a little
more if you really like a strong anise flavor.
Measure half the flour in a very large bowl--8 qt. size or better--add
the egg mixture and mix together with a heavy wooden spoon--or any
large spoon. Add the remaining half of the flour one cup at a time and
mix well. You have added enough flour when the mixture "glomps" off
the spoon and is still a little runny--not real thick. Usually 7 cups
of flour is adequate--depends on the weather (really!).
Heat up the iron for a few minutes then make the cookies by placing 1
full teaspoon full of the dough in the center of each form. Press
closed tightly and cook for about 1 minute. Immediately move the
cookie to wax paper to cool. The cookies are very soft at this point
and will take the shape of any bumps in the wax paper--so make it
smooth. This recipe makes about 14 -20 dozen cookies depending on the
size you make them. It can be cut in half easily without losing any
flavor. When the cookies are thoroughly cool--crisp--stack them and
leave them in the open--do not cover they will become very soft and
unappetizing. If you can, do not eat them for about 3 days to a week.
The flavor of the anise improves with a few days age.
Enjoy. Diane M. Ferrell