Ingredients
For filling
"Musto cotto"
Wine grape marmalade or jam
Sour cheery marmalade
Prune marmalade
Honey
Espresso coffee
Ground almonds
Chopped walnuts
Orange zest
Semi-sweet chocolate
Cinnamon and nutmeg
[Bread crumbs]
[Semolina]
For pastry dough
A kilo of flour
10 eggs
10 tablespoons of sugar
10 tablespoons of oil
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Directions
Mix the ingredients and work into a fine dough.
Cut into pieces and pass them through a pasta machine. The strips should look like a lasagna strip.
Place the filling on the pastry, roll up the pastry with the joint underneath. Press together.
With the help of a wooden spatula divide the filled pastry into 2.5 - 3 inches and cut with a roller pastry cutter, make sure both ends are closed.
With a small scissor cut air vents on top of the pastry pockets.
Bake in a 350 degree F oven until the pastries are golden.
Notes
Nowadays the cookies are made for very special events. In Italy they were generally made for weddings. The photo was taken by Rita Palazzo; the cookies were made by her sister, Maria. |