Little Wine Cookies / Biscottini al Vino
Easy
"S" Cookies
S cookies were originally made using a funnel attached to an old-fashioned meat grinder, but they can be formed with a pastry bag. Sometimes they are shaped like a figure eight. This cookie is soft when it first comes out of the oven, but crisps up like a sugar cookie as it cools. They are a cookie jar favorite, but also look stylish on a wedding cookie cake.
MAKES ABOUT 3 1/2 DOZEN
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups King Arthur™ Unbleached, All-Purpose Flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup solid vegetable shortening, melted and cooled
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- INGREDIENTS
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a bowl.
- In another bowl, whisk the eggs with the sugar until light and lemon-colored. Whisk in the shortening, lemon juice, and vanilla. Gradually stir in the flour mixture, mixing well to blend the ingredients. Let the batter sit, covered, for 5 minutes.
- Fill a tipless pastry bag two thirds full of the batter to form 3-inch-long Ss or 8s on cookie sheets. Or drop heaping teaspoonfuls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets, spacing them about 1 1/2 inches apart, and shape each one into a 3-inch-long S, using the back of the spoon.
- Bake the cookies for 10 to 12 minutes, or until pale golden in color. Watch carefully and rotate the sheets to prevent burning. Let the cookies cool slightly on the cookie sheets before removing them to cooling racks.
- Note: These are wonderful with coffee or tea and make a great after-school snack. They can be frozen, but will be softer in texture.
- All the cookie recipes can be foundHERE:http://www.ciaoitalia.com/seasons/recipes/wedding-cookie-cake
- Program 2503
This recipe was featured on Season 25 - Episode 2503.
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Comments
Margaret Cassano Harvey
Thank you for this recipe. This has been a cookie that had been made by my mother’s family for bridal showers, weddings and baptisms. We referred to them as the Labella Lemon S Cookie. My cousins and I have tried to replicate the recipe for years – our grandmother and mothers knew the recipe from memory.. Why our cookies did not taste the same is because we were using butter instead of shortening. Thank you for demonstrating this recipe.
Cathy LoPiccolo
May aunt’s recipe is slightly different. There is no lemon juice in it. I cut the shortening into the flour mixture. Blind the sugar and eggs together and then add it, mixing by hand. I roll out the dough and cut the logs to shape like S. My nephew eats them like chips, one after their other.
Cathy LoPiccolo
May aunt’s recipe is slightly different. There is no lemon juice in it. I cut the shortening into the flour mixture. Blind the sugar and eggs together and then add it, mixing by hand. I roll out the dough and cut the logs to shape like S. My nephew eats them like chips, one after their other.
Isabella
Can you substitute the vegetable shortening with butter?
Grazie
Eileen
I have made this recipe se deal times and it has always been a hit! Thanks so much.
Mauro Andrisani
Hi from Turin 🙂
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gustavo woltmann
Thanks for sharing this information, I am interested in this. Because my hobby is cooking and singing. Gustavo Woltmann
Lily
Can I use butter in place if shortening? Thank you!