Reg wrote:
> JOAN MC NAMARA wrote:
>
> > Looking for a recipe. Love these cookies but coming from Irish household -
> > have no idea how to make.
> >
> >
>
> Never heard of Italian anise cookies per se, but it sounds like
> you're talking about biscotti.
>
> --
> Reg

Biscotti are slices of a half-oval shape of a "toasted" sweet bread.
Another Italian cookie is "pizelles." They are flat, round, thin
wafer-like cookies, 3 or 5 inch diameter, made in appliances like a
waffle press. They can include anise extract instead of vanilla
extract. When warm, they are sometimes shaped around a wooden dowel to
make a tube for a filling of cheese and sugar to make "cannoli." Or
curved around a cone shaped dowel to make the sugar cookie cones at
your local ice cream parlor.

Both biscotti and pizzelles have a variety of recipes, with different
flavors, including cocoa. Most differences in flavors depends upon the
extract used. A search on www.allrecipes.com will result in a variety
of recipes for both.