These cookies have several names you may also be familiar with Italian Ricotta Lemon Drops ... any flavor but the most popular are lemon and anisette. Our cookie recipe is over 100 years old ...

When reader Alice Boyd contacted me for an Italian anise cookie recipe, the hunt was on. There were tons of recipes on the Internet; which one to pass along to Boyd and her fellow Taste of the ...

Italian waffle cookies made with eggs ... with anise cookies and biscotti, plus anisette, the liqueur. Italians have used anise in cookies for hundreds of years. Anise cookies are sweet little ...

If I get to New York and people like the cookies, then I have a good anisette cookie because it’s all Italian in New York.” ...

The first thing we learn about Italian cookies is that they are called biscotti ... crunchy cakes with just a hint of anisette. Le Tre Spezzie, or The Three Spices, is a recipe she got from ...

Three varieties of Italian cookie: anisette, lemon, and cranberry biscotti, baked by Fitchburg baker Patti Vacca Martin. (COURTESY PATTI VACCA MARTIN) Patti grew up in “the Patch,” a heavily ...

The book has recipes such as “Nana’s Sausage Bread” by Andrea Sisti, “Caldo Gallego” by Elaine Franek-Materon, and “Italian Anisette Cookie” by Joanne Salerno. The idea of a cookbook ...

Cookies: In a large bowl, use a mixer to beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add anise extract. One at a time, add eggs, mixing and scraping the sides of the bowl after each ...