Italian Pizzella Recipes

Your mixing instructions:

1. Beat eggs well, add sugar gradually, beat
2. Add oil or shortening, flavoring, beat until blended smooth
3. Add fluor, a little at a time, mix well.
4. Add when required, baking powder, salt.
5. Chill dough two hours, overnight or several days under refrigeration to enrich favor.
6. Recipes 1, 2, 3, 4 for thin.  5, 6, 7, 8, for thick Pizzella.

A little information for you:

1. Oil can be vegetable, peanut or olive
2. Melted shortening can be margarine, crisco, spry, or any other hydrogenated product.
3. One cup of your favorite fine chopped nuts can be added to any recipe.
4. Puer anise oil can always be obtained at a drugstore
5. One tablespoon of anise extract can be substituted for half teaspoonful pure anise oil.
6. Authentic Italian Pizzella call for anise seed yet can be omited without much loss of flavor.
7. Yield: four dozen full size from these recipes.

Recipe 1

12 eggs

3 cups sugar

flavoring: 3/4 cup anisette liqueur and 4 tablespoons anise seed

4 cups fluor

4 tablespoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Recipe 2

12 eggs

2 cups sugar

2 cups oil

Flavoring: 2 teaspoons of pure lemon or pure orange extract and 1/2 teaspoon pure anise oil add one drop at a time.

4 cups fluor

Recipe 3

12 eggs

3 cups sugar

1 1/2 cups oil

flavoring: 6 tablespoons fresh lemon juice and grated rinds of four large lemons

4 cups fluor

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Recipe 4

12 eggs

3 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups oil

flavoring: 1 ounce bottle pure lemon extract, 1 ounce bottle pure orange extract and 1 teaspoon vanilla

6 cups fluor

1/4 teaspoon salt

Recipe 5

12 eggs

3 cups sugar

2 cups oil

Flavoring: 1 cup cocoa and 4 teaspoons vanilla or 2 squares semi-sweet chocolate and 4 teaspoons vanilla

8 cups fluor

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Recipe 6

12 eggs

3 1/2 cups sugar

2 cups melted shortening

flavoring: 1 teaspoon pure anise oil, add one drop at a time or 4 teaspoons vanilla

6 cups fluor

1 teaspoon salt

Recipe 7

12 eggs

4 cups sugar

1 cup melted shortening

flavoring: 4 teaspoons vanilla or 1 teaspoon pure anise oil and 4 tablespoons anise seed

8 cups fluor

1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Recipe 8

12 eggs

3 cups sugar

2 cups melted shortening

flavoring: 4 teaspoons vanilla or 1 teaspoon pure anise oil and 4 tablespoons anise seed

8 cups fluor

4 teaspoons baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt