Name: Burano’s Sugar Cookies (I Bussolai de Buran)
Yield: About 2 dozen bussolai
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 5 egg yolks; Pinch of salt; 1¼ cups sugar; The grated peel of 1 lemon; 2 tablespoons milk; 4½ cups flour, plus flour for dusting the baking pan; ½ teaspoon vanilla; ½ pound (2 sticks) butter, softened at room temperature, plus butter for smearing the baking pan

Preparation info

About
2 dozen

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Marcella Cucina

By Marcella Hazan

Published 1997

About

Burano is an island in the Venetian lagoon famous for its gaily colored houses, its handmade lace, and these cookies. The cookies are highly prized in Venice, where the pastry shops sell them at a high price. Their name comes from buso, Venetian for hole, and they are called that when shaped into a circle. They can also be made into an “S” shape, and then they are simply called buranei, after the island they come from.

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