Struffoli - - Neapolitan Christmas Treats Recipe

Ingredients

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• Struffoli - - Neapolitan Christmas Treats shopping list
• Struffoli are (they're always referred to in the plural) now an absolute requirement at the end of a Neapolitan Christmas day dinner. However, in introducing them in La Cucina Napoletana, Caròla Francesconi says their inclusion is relatively recent -- Crisci mentions them several times in the book he wrote in 1634, but doesn't include them in his Christmas menu. To make a batch you will need: shopping list
• INGREDIENTS: shopping list
• ** For the dough ** shopping list
• 4 cups (400 g) flour shopping list
• 4 eggs shopping list
• 1 teaspoon grain alcohol shopping list
• A chunk of butter the size of a small walnut shopping list
• 1 tablespoon sugar shopping list
• The zest of a half a lemon, grated shopping list
• The zest of half an orange, grated shopping list
• 1 pinch salt shopping list
• 1 pot full of olive oil for frying shopping list
• ** For the seasoning (for want of a better term) ** shopping list
• 3/4 pound (300 g) honey shopping list
• 3/4 cup (150 g) sugar shopping list
• 1/3 cup water shopping list
• 2 ounces diavolilli (tiny, variously colored candied almonds) shopping list
• 4 candied cherries, halved shopping list
• 2 ounces (50 g) candied orange peel, half finely diced and half cut into fine strips shopping list
• 2 ounces (50 g) candied citron, half finely diced and half cut into fine strips shopping list
• 2 ounces (50 g) candied melon rind, half finely diced and half cut into fine strips shopping list