5 struffoli christmas Recipes

struffoli - - neapolitan christmas treats, 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, carola francesconi says their inclusion is relatively recent -- crisci mentions them several times in the book he wrote in 1634, but doesn tsp include them in his christmas menu. to make a batch you will need, dough, flour, eggs, grain alcohol, a chunk of butter the size of a small walnut, sugar, zest of a half a lemon, grated, zest of half an orange, grated, salt, pot full of olive oil for frying, seasoning (for want of a better term ), honey, sugar, water, diavolilli (tiny, variously colored candied almonds), candied cherries, halved, candied orange peel, half finely diced and half cut into fine strips, candied citron, half finely diced and half cut into fine strips, candied melon rind, half finely diced and half cut into fine strips

all-purpose flour, eggs, egg yolk, grated zest of 2 lemons, juice of 1 lemon, grated zest of 1 orange, salt, limoncello or grand marnier, extra-virgin olive oil, for deep-frying, honey, sugar , for dusting

flour, eggs , plus 1 egg yolk, lemon , zested and juiced, plus 1 , zested, orange , zested, salt, limoncello, canola or peanut oil, for frying, honey, powdered sugar , for dusting

flour, eggs , plus 1 egg yolk, lemon , zested and juiced, plus 1 , zested, orange , zested, salt, limoncello, canola or peanut oil, for frying, honey, powdered sugar , for dusting