Amaretto cookies
Amaretto cookies, these almond cookies are very used in Sardinia for weddings and holidays lunches. The Italian amaretto almond cookies are an old tradition of Italian pastry.
In Italy, people use to offer something when you visit them.The older the person, the more she will demand that you accept a drink or a candy.
I tried these amaretto cookies the first time only to avoid disappointing the lady that was offering them to me. …and now I am fond of them.
The Italian original recipe is very simple, but I can anticipate you that it requires a little bit of experience in setting the right oven temperature and so on.
But…one gets better the more one tries, isn't it?
You'll need:
• 0.9 cup of peeled sweet almonds
• 0.2 cup of peeled bitter almonds
• grated peel of 2 lemons
• 8 egg whites whipped up
• 1.3 cups of sugar
• some spoons of seed corn wheat
How to do it:
Mince the almonds and put them into a bowl. Add the sugar, the lemon grated peel and the egg white whipped up. Mix all very slowly.If it results too soft, add 1 spoon of seed corn wheat. Leave it rest for at least one hour, but even much more (it only helps).
Put a bowl with water close to you to wet your hands to make the balls.
Put sugar on a dish and make the ball roll until it becomes completely covered with sugar.
In another dish put the seed corn wheat and press the bottom of the ball on it.
Put them on a pan far from each other.
Put it into the oven pre-heated at 248°F for about 30 minutes.They should become coloured.
Buon appetito! Enjoy!
amaretto syrup
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