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Calabrian Fritters
Preparation info
- Makes about
4 dozen
small pastries - Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 1990
These small pastries take their name from their amusing twisted shape, known in Calabrian dialect as “little ladders.”
Ingredients
1 1 1 tablespoon
Method
Whisk the egg and yolk together and whisk in the sugar, salt, anisette, and butter. With a rubber spatula, stir in the flour to make a soft dough and continue stirring until the dough becomes slightly elastic, about 1 minute. Scrape the dough out of the bowl onto a floured surface and fold the dough over on itself 5 or 6 times, to make it more elastic. Flour the dough, wrap it in plastic, and l