573. Biscotti della Salute

Health Cookies

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

Cheer up, for if you eat these cookies you will never die, or you will live as long as Methuselah. I eat them often, in fact, and when some indiscreet person sees me more sprightly than is becoming to my venerable age and asks me how old I am, I answer that I am as old as Methuselah, son of Enoch.

Ingredients

  • 350 grams (about 12-⅓ ounces) of flour
  • 100 grams (about 3-½

Method

Mix the flour with the sugar and make a mound with a hole in the middle where you will drop the rest of the ingredients, adding a little milk to obtain a rather soft dough. Shape the dough in a slightly flattened cylinder about half a meter long. Grease a baking pan with butter, and divide the loaf into two parts so that it will fit in the pan. Make sure that the two parts are well separated, b