Title: Pizzelle - Italian Anise Cookies
Categories: Cookie
Yield: 200 Servings

3 c Sugar
3 1/2 c Eggs
2 1/4 c Melted shortening (use a
-combination of butter;
-margarine; and crisco)
5 tb Grated orange peel
3 tb Grated lemon peel
3 ts Orange extract
2 ts Lemon extract
1 c Artificial vanilla extract
1 ts Anise oil -or-
1 Bottle anise extract (not
-as strong flavor as the
-oil)
7 -(up to)
8 c Flour

From: dmferrell@happy.uccs.edu (Diane M. Ferrell)

Date: 29 Mar 1994 20:18:24 -0500
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.

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