Biscotti Napoletani

This is another easy and delicious recipe kindly given to me by Salvatore Maggio at his pastry shop in Trapani. Salvatore was so eager to share his knowledge and his recipes that he kept dictating recipes and instructions hours after his shop had closed, while one and then another member of his family would come to remind him at twenty- or thirty-minute intervals that his supper was waiting.

Be careful with the first baking of these biscotti. Even though they