Granny’s Lies

Name: Granny’s Lies (Busie d’la Nonna)
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 55 g (2 oz) butter; 250 g (9 oz) plain flour; 1 large egg, beaten; 2 tbsp granulated sugar; a pinch of salt; 5 tbsp sweet vermouth; lard or olive oil for deep-frying; lard or olive oil for deep-frying; icing sugar for dusting

Busie d’la Nonna

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

An Invitation to Italian Cooking

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1986

About

‘A granny shouldn’t tell lies, but these particular ones are sweet lies - made from strips of pastry that are then cut into ribbons and tied in bows by a patient granny. They can be eaten after an informal dinner, or in the afternoon, with a cup of coffee. Like cannoli, they are best fried in lard.’

Ingredients

55 g (2 oz) butter
250 g (9

Europe
Italy
Dessert
Dinner
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the butter with the flour, as for pastry, until the texture is like breadcrumbs. Add the egg, sugar, salt and finally the vermouth. Knead to a smooth dough. This takes 5 minutes or so, and the dough should be fairly stiff. Alternatively, use an electric mixer with a blade for dough-making. Put the dough to rest in a cool place for 2 hours or more.

To make the busie, roll out the dou