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scarponi di natale Abruzzo christmas cookies

Scarponi di Natale abruzzesi (Christmas chocolate walnut cookies flavored with orange zest and Sambuca)

Originated from: Abruzzo, Italy

Occasion: Christmas holidays

Contributed by: Adapted from an Italian cookbook published in the 1980s

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Ingredients

For recipe see Italy Revisited/Cookies with Nuts

Directions

Notes

"Scarponi" means big shoe or boot. Perhaps this chocolate cookie is considered so heavy and flavorful that it is called after a boot, but that's just speculation. Comments and photo: Mary Melfi

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