Sicilian Biscuit Recipes
Breakfast Biscuits
The cookies made with Italian shortbread that is called pasta frolla, are year around favorite breakfast cookies for children of all ages!… This crispy and crumbling cookie associate well with milk for the young and is a preferred companion to coffee for the … other generations.
Grandma Biscuits
This recipe comes from the Sicilian side of Frank Curcurato’s family. Grandma Concetta made these biscuits in her hometown of Villasmundo in the province of Syracuse and called them biscotti a esse (S-shaped biscuits). Frank says that every time he went to see Grandma ..
Regina Biscuits Sesami Cimino
The “Regina or Reginella” biscuits are classic cookies originally made in Palermo and baked all over Sicily and in the Italian peninsula. In Palermo the Regina Biscuits are also called “Viscuotta ‘Nciminati” which means cookies flavored with cumin an ancient spice called in Italian ..
Pistachio Cookies
Sicily is the only Italian region where pistachio trees are grown, and the town of Bronte is the largest producer in the region. Bronte pistachios are preferred for their delicate aroma and the nutty and sweet-sour taste.
Honey Biscuits al Miele
These easy to make cookies were made without a recipe, simply by beating some whole eggs for 15 minutes, adding warm honey, flour, cinnamon and quickly baked. The following recipe varies only in the method; however, the basic ingredients remain the same.
Savoiardi Biscuits (Viscotta Furrincotti)
Mrs. Bernadette Johnson, sent this recipe to make these delicious breakfast cookie/cake her aunts Benedetta and Mariannina Calcaterra called them in their dialect Viscotta Furrincotti or Furrincozza and in the region Savoiardi.
Wine Biscuits Affuca Parrini
The Affuca Parrina are perfect biscuits to serve with wine. Called priest strangler as the legend goes, because when they were offered to a priest he liked the biscuits and was eating them so fast that he choked on them.
Quaresimali
The name Quaresimali derives from the word Quaresima, Lent. The biscuits called Quaresimali were traditionally made is Sicily during Lent this being the reason that these crunchy and light cookies.....
Lemon Taralli Biscuits
The Taralli biscuits are made all over Sicily. In some provinces, the lemon flavor is replaced with the orange and vanilla and in other parts anise liquor or seeds are added. When they are freshly made they may feel firm, but the next day they became soft and delicately delicious.
Baked Anise Taralli
In Palermo, the Taralli are made with a mixture similar to bread dough, shaped round or twisted and rounded like a little crown; lard or oil is added to make the Taralli tender but flaky and crunchy on the outside.
Viscuotta Scaurati Boiled Taralli
The Taralli biscuits are made all over Sicily. In Ragusa and in its province, the Taralli, also called Viscuotta Scaurati, meaning boiled biscuits, are prepared using a different baking method, and actually before being baked the ..
Muscardini Ossa di Morto
The muscardini are made for the day of the dead (Giorno dei Morti) with a mixture of flour, sugar, and cinnamon and cut into small pieces...The other variety made in south-western Sicily is made with a mixture of flour, sugar, almond, flavored with a combination of cloves, cinnamon powder and lemon zest; it is baked with a different technique.
Mustazzoli in Sicily (Mustaccioli)
...The following recipes (12 in total) are a synthesis of the many suggestions I gathered, of my baking experience, and of the baking tests I executed in the attempts to give the right information. Each province, each town, and each family uses different ingredients and different technique....
Grand Mom Sidotti’s Easter Bread
These biscotti are flavored with sesame seeds, wild fennels and anise and go well with the sherbet made with the local lemon. Mr. Phil Sidotti, whose grandparents were born in Montalbano Elicona and in San Pietro di Niceto, is so kind to share with us the “Grand Mom Sidotti Easter Bread”, a recipe for biscuits that has been in his family for generations.
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