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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Spanish and Portuguese >> Portuguese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Position rack in center of the oven, preheat oven to 350 degrees; line a baking sheet with parchment paper. | 2. Starting with the pastry dough: mix together the flour, sugar and salt in a medium bowl; cut the butter into small bits and work into the flour, along with the eggs, until a smooth dough is formed. | 3. Cover with a clean kitchen towel and set aside for 10 minutes before rolling dough out on a floured board. | 4. For the filling: combine the water, sugar and lemon zest in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat, boil until the mixture reaches 220 degrees on a candy thermometer, takes about 10 minutes. | 5. Remove pot from the heat and let cool slightly. | 6. Crush the anise seeds in a mortar or a spice mill, add to the sugar mixture, along with the cinnamon, butter and breadcrumbs, mix well. | 7. The mixture should resemble bread stuffing. | 8. Roll out a third of the pastry as thinly as possible. | 9. Using a pastry cutter or knife, cut 3-inch-wide strips of pastry. | 10. With the same cutter make 1/2 inch horizontal slits just off one long edge of the pastry, about 3/4 inch apart. | 11. Spread some cooled filling down the center of the strip, then fold the side with the slits over the solid side, enclosing the filling and sealing the edges. | 12. Cut into 3-inch long cookies. | 13. Place on a lined baking sheet. | 14. Repeat with the remaining pastry. | 15. Bake until the cookies are golden brown, about 15 minutes, be careful not to let them burn. | 16. Let cool on the cookie sheet for 10 minutes, then remove the cookies to a rack to cool completely. | 17. Store in an airtight container at room temperature. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
water	1 1/8	1/8		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
sugar	1 1/4	cups		1007.475	251.995	0.0	0.0
lemon			grated	-	-	-	-
anise seed	1	tablespoon		22.579	3.3513	1.1792	1.0653
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1	teaspoon		171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
breadcrumb	1 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
flour	1 1/2	cups		867.42	189.9081	14.1015	3.3654
sugar	1/2	cup		1007.475	251.995	0.0	0.0
salt	1/8	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
butter	2	tablespoons		171.0	7.857	5.343	14.4
egg	2		beaten	143.0	0.72	12.56	9.51

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.