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Monday, February 21, 2022

Bitter Campari Negroni Recipe

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HOW to MAKE a NEGRONI

"The NEGRONI"

Basic NEGRONI Recipe by Bellino

Ingredients :

1 ounce Campari

1 ounce Sweet Vermouth

1 ounce Gin

Ice

Orange

1. Fill a Rocks-Glass or Highball Glass with Ice.

2) Add Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin.

3) Stir ingredients. Garnish with a piece of Orange Peel or slice of Orange.

Note: Orsen Wells after discovering the Negroni while writing a screenplay in Rome, wrote in a correspondence back home thathe had discovered a delightful Italian Cocktail, “The Negroni.” Welles stated, “It is made of Bitter Campari which is good for the liver, and of Gin which is bad. The two balance each other out.”

The BELLINO NEGRONI

Best Selling Italian Cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke has been drinking Negroni's since he had his first in Rome, Italy, way back in the Summer of 1985. Daniel loves his Negroni, and it gets him just a bit perturbed at the cocktails over- popularity of late (the past 6 Years), as he feels it cheapnes his beloved Italian Cocktail, as Daniel says, "Now everybody and their Grandmother drinks them" When not so many people drank them, and very few ever even heard of the Negroni at all, it made drinking them, that much more special. Now? Well you can't stop progress as they say.

The BELLINO NEGRONI

Bellino, who knows a thing or two about Negronis, says he likes his own specail way, deviating slightly for what is the standard recipe of equal parts of Gin, Sweet Vermouth, and Campari on the rocks, with a fresh slice of Orange. Daniel says, he likes his Negroni with 1/3 Campari, with the other 2/3 of his Negroni made up of a bit less Gin (less than a third), and a bit more than a third of Sweet Vermouth over ice, with a splash of Club Soda, and of course an Orange slice. That's "The Bellino Negroni" Basta.

PS ... Bellino says "Tucci has the Negroni all Wrong." Shame on you Stanley. In his book, Tucci calls for half of the drink to be made with Gin, and the other half, with equal parts of Campari and Sweet Vermouth. ONG Stanley? This would make a horrible Negroni with so much Gin, overpowering the Sweet Vermouth and Campari.

Bellino says, while it is OK to tweak the Negroni just a bit, such a drastic change with half the cocktail made with Gin, would completely destroy the drink, and turn it totally "out of balance" unlike the Bellino Negroni, with just a minor change (less Gin), making for a superb cocktail.

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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Sicilian Cucciddati Cookies Recipe

SICILIAN "CUCCIDDATI" COOKIES

Cucciddati , also known variously as Buccellati, Italian fig cookies or Sicilian Fig Cookies, are fig stuffed cookies traditionally served at Christmas time.

The outer cookie is pastry dough, covered with icing and typically topped with rainbow sprinkles. The filling generally consists of some combination of walnuts, dates, figs, honey, spices and orange or apricot jam. The pastry is rolled around the filling, and rolls are either cut into short tubes, or curved around to form a "Bracelet".

When ring-shaped, these may be known as buccellati, meaning "little bracelets," and are a diminutive form of buccellato, a larger fig-filled ring cake. The ingredients are as varied as the names the cookies are called by, apparently a function of the town or region in which they are made. Other towns call them "nucciddati" (nut cookies), "zucciddati", "ucciddati", "vucciddati" and as in Serradifalco, pucciddati. That town's version includes ground figs and dates, nuts, and orange rinds

PASTRY DOUGH

cup  Butter
cup Sugar 
1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
large eggs 
teaspoon Vanilla
1/2 cup  All purpose fFour 

The FILLING

2 cups chopped dried figs
1 cup orange juice (240 ml)
2 cup  raisins
2 cups chopped Walnuts
2 cups Chocolate nibs (chips) 
1/2 cup  Honey
1/2 teaspoon of Cinnamon 
Zest of 1 Orange

The GLAZE 

5 heaping tablespoons of confectioners sugar 
2  to 3 tablespoons cold water 
Nonpareils 

Pastry preparation :

Cream together butter and sugar until sugar is dissolved.

Add baking soda to flour and mix 1 cup at a time of flour/soda to creamed butter/sugar.

Add vanilla.

Add 1 egg at a time. Blend well.

Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes 

The FILLING

Chop figs in small pieces. Add orange juice and let it sit for a few hours until figs rehydrate.  Add remaining ingredients and mix gently. This process can be done a day before. 

Assembly 

When ready to bake, cut dough into 6 equal pieces.

Flour surface and roll out to 9 x 12 rectangle.

Spoon filling along the long side of pastry, about 1 inch in diameter.

Roll filled pastry, wet the end and close, place seam down on parchment lined pan.

Bake  at 350 degrees Fahrenheit (180 degrees Celsius) for about 25 minutes or until light golden color. 

Let it sit on cooking rack for about 5 minutes as you prepare the glaze. 

Mix confectioners sugar with water mix to a smooth glaze. 

Before they’re completely cool brush top of cuccidati rolls with glaze. 

Add sprinkles if you wish while confectioners sugar syrup is still wet. 

ENJOY !!!!

This RECIPE is Compliments from author Daniel Bellino Zwicke

EXCERTED From  GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK

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In any conversation about the top footballing nations of the world, Italy is bound to be mentioned more than a few times. With four World Cup titles, Italy is tied with Germany and second only to Brazil (five) as the most successful tournament participant of all time. They’ve also won the Olympic football tournament in 1936 and the European Championship in 1968. They’re known by the name of Azzurri and for their traditional blue kits.

HISTORY

Shortly after being founded in 1910, Italy organized its first official match with France. They won 6-2 in front of approximately 4,000 spectators at Arena Civica, with Pietro Lana scoring the first goal. Pleased with the performance, the team’s fans rewarded the players by throwing them cigarette packets. This was one of only two games that Italy would play in white kits; next year, they switched to blue jerseys inspired by the royal House of Savoy crest on the national flag.

The team’s first notable success arrived in 1928, when they placed third in the Summer Olympics football tournament. Eight years later, they would go a step further by winning the competition, beating Austria 2-1 in the final match. In between these two appearances, they won the Central European International Cup on two occasions. They were also invited to the inaugural World Cup in 1930, but they declined to participate.

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The year 1934 saw Italy host a World Cup, making their first appearance in the competition. This squad was led by the legendary Giuseppe Meazza, arguably the greatest Italian player of all time. Known as “Il Genio” by the Italian press, Meazza was a prolific goalscorer and a virtuoso with the ball. The team was coached by Vittorio Pozzo, who popularized a 2-3-2-3 formation with two half-backs and inside-forwards.

After routing the United States 7-1 in their first match in World Cup history, Italy was set to play Spain. The game ended in a 1-1 draw, with various controversial decisions favoring the home team. In the replay match, Italy defeated Spain 1-0 on a Meazza winner. They then beat Austria 1-0 in the semi-finals and Czechoslovakia 2-1 in the finals, winning the World Cup title in their debut appearance. Meazza was voted player of the tournament.

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4 WORLD CUP CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006

Italy is one of the most successful national teams in the history of the World Cup, having won four titles (1934, 1938, 1982, 2006), just one fewer than Brazil. The team was present in 18 out of the 21 tournaments, reaching six finals, a third place and a fourth place.

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Two EURO CUP CHAMPIONSHIPS 1968 and 2020

Italy have participated in ten UEFA European Championships, and reached the final on four occasions. They became European champions at home in 1968, the first European Championship they qualified for, and finished as runners-up in 2000 and 2012, before winning their second continental championship at Euro 2020.