Day Two – Cuciadati (or Italian Fig Cookie) Recipe
RETURN TO AUDUBON SPRINGS is in its SECOND DAY of being featured for FREE exclusively on Amazon Kindle! If you have not purchased this emotionally charged Romantic Comedy, now is your chance to grab it for FREE! As promised here is another Italian Specialty Cookie Recipe right from Mama Iuliano’s cookbook. I encourage you to grab the Cuciadati Cookie recipe before browsing through the listings of sites where Return to Audubon Springs is being featured. I think you will find some fabulous blogs worth following, plus, here you’ll have a chance to enter in the $25 Amazon Gift Card Raffle!
Cuciadati (Italian Fig Cookies) Grandma Mangione’s Recipe (Originally started with 5lbs. of flour like all her other cookie recipes) Dough: 5 large eggs slightly beaten ½ pound shortening ½ pound butter 1 cup sugar 6 cups flour 5 tsp. baking powder 1 Tbsp. Vanilla 1 tsp. salt Mix together all dry ingredients. Work in butter and shortening as in pie crust. After all shortening is worked into dough mix, add eggs and vanilla and knead dough until smooth or use food processor. Refrigerate dough for at least one hour. Filling: 1 cup raisins ½ pound citrus fruit ½ pound dates 1 pound figs 1 orange (Including skin) 1Tbsp. Cinnamon ½ pound walnuts, chopped 3 Tbsp. honey Grind together in food mill (I use the food processor for this. Forgive me, grandma!) first 5 ingredients. Then add chopped nuts and cinnamon and mix well. Last, add honey. Roll a strip of dough approximately 3 inches wide and 12 inches long between 2 sheets of floured was paper. Put approximately 1 inch strip of fig filling down the center of dough. Use the waxed paper to roll the dough over the filling. Lay seam side down and cut into approximately 1 inch pieces. Place on greased cookie sheets and bake at 375 degrees for 18 minutes. Remove to a cooling rack. When cooled frost cookies with the following icing. Icing Mix about 2 cups confectionery sugar with 1 tsp. vanilla and enough water to make a thin icing. Ice cookies and sprinkle with multi-colored nonpareils sprinkles. Enjoy with family and friends! YUM!
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Sounds like an interesting recipe. Thanks for sharing and good luck with the release…and thanks so much for the free read!
There’s nothing better than a free read! Unless you’ve got something sweet to go with it, of course! Enjoy!
You’re welcome. This cookie is a little harder to make than the other recipes I’ll be featuring. Thank you for stopping by!
I love that you are sharing those cherished traditional “family secret recipes” and writing them down for safe keeping for this next generation! We’ve enjoyed making and eating these cookies for the last 42 years and hopefully the tradition will continue! I just purchased my paperback copy of “Return to Audubon Springs” which I hope you will autograph for me some day. Best wishes to the most talented and published writer in our family! I hope this is just the beginning for your new career! Love Always, Aunt Kathy
You have no idea what I means to me when I see family stop by to leave a comment. All of you are a part of what I write and are a part of the Iuliano family in the Audubon Springs series.
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