Recipes: December 2003 Archives

When I was a little girl and would stay at my grandmothers, I would wake up to see her crunching down a biscotti and a cup of coffee. She would always offer one and I would turn her down because frankly, they did not appeal to me at all. They were always too crunchy and my grandmother did not make them with chocolate, but usually molasses or even worse anise (blah) with nuts (blah). Not fun kid fare.

When I grew up and actually saw them selling biscotti in coffee shops, I was shocked. Who would want to eat those dry licorice tasting cookies? And why were they calling them bis-cot-tee when we have always called them BEESH-GAWT Then I saw ones with chocolate chips and realised I could do that. Make the same cookies my grandmother makes, but add chocolate chips and not use anise. I am still amazed they sell these because they are like the easiest cookies in the history of the world.

Biscotti
1/2 cup shortening (or butter)
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
3 cups of flour
3 tsp baking powder
flavouring (I use 1 tsp vanilla, some grated orange peel and 1 cup chocolate chips)

Cream the butter, add the sugar and eggs 1 at a time. Add flour, baking powder and flavouring. Shape dough into like three round loaves and squish them down to make them slightly oblong. Bake on a greased cookie sheet for like an hour in 350 degree oven. Take out the loaves and slive them at an angle. Bake the slices for like another twenty minutes or until they are hard and crunchy.

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