Grandmom Piccone's Pizzelles

Name: Grandmom Piccone's Pizzelles
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 48-60 cookies
Ingredients: 8 eggs; 7 ounces melted Crisco; 1 1/4 cups sugar; 1 (1 ounce) bottle anise extract or 2 teaspoons anise oil; 2 1/2 cups flour

Submitted by Cindysnoopy

"Italian Anise "waffle" cookies. Requires a pizzelle iron. This recipe was given to my Mom from the mother of her confirmation sponsor, Mary Piccone aka "Aunt Mary Tootsie Wootz". Mom said that Grandmom Piccone would make these cookies year round, and always had them available when people visited. She would make them with a handheld iron over the stove burner. She didn't have a recipe written down, so my Mother sat with her one day while she made them and took the ingredients and put them in measuring cups to record the recipe."

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Ready In:: 1hr 20mins
Ingredients:: 5
Yields:: 48-60 cookies

ingredients

8 eggs
7 ounces melted Crisco
1 ¹⁄₄ cups sugar
1 (1 ounce) bottle anise extract or 2 teaspoons anise oil
2 ¹⁄₂ cups flour

directions

Beat eggs and sugar until light and foamy.
Add melted shortening a little at a time.(make sure shortening is slightly cool, if it is too hot, it will cook the eggs!).
Add anise oil.
Gradually add flour to make a very light dough.
Drop onto pizzelle iron with a teaspoon to cook.

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I'm an inner-city missionary with Jesus People USA in Chicago (www.jpusa.org). I'm married with two children. I love scrapbooking and other paper crafts.

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