They are an Italian cookie. I hadn't heard of them until I came to Florida and my friend made them and she's not Italian. I know you have to have a special iron to make them on. I don't think they are hard to make, but they take a little time because they cook rather like a waffle, and you can't put too much batter on for each cookie.
Maybe it's the utter lack of Italians around here, then. (Two of the, like, four Italian restaurants around here are run by a Greek and someone from the Middle East, respectively.) Although we're lousy with Scots-Irish, and there's not a hint of either Scottish or Irish cuisine to be found, either, so maybe that's not it.
I would so be making these if I had a special iron to do so with. I'm thinking of adding anise/licorice flavoring to sugar cookies or something as a substitute.
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Date: 2006-12-19 11:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-20 01:52 am (UTC)I would so be making these if I had a special iron to do so with. I'm thinking of adding anise/licorice flavoring to sugar cookies or something as a substitute.