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Scalille Calabrese: Recipes at My Table
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Scalille Calabrese
Author: Renata Solski
Ingredients
  • * 12 eggs remove half the whites
  • * 3 to 3/12 cups of flour mom used to 2/12 and then another 1/2 on the board I used 3/12
  • * 2 tbsp crisco
  • * 2 tbsp sugar
  • * pinch of baking powder about 1/2 tsp baking powder, 1/8 tsp salt
  • * 2 cups honey plus 1/2 cup water for the coating
  • * 1 gallon and 1/2 oil for frying canola or vegetable
Instructions
  1. Mix eggs,crisco and sugar. Make a well with flour. Pour wet ingredients into centre and mix.
  2. You want to add enough flour to make a stiff dough.
  3. For traditional Dog bones, Roll dough into logs and slit along the sides.
  4. Mom making her traditional braids.
  5. Deep fry in oil until golden. I used a deep fryer, but mom put a pot of oil on the stove.
  6. I put them on a paper towel to dry.
  7. Look at how fluffy they are inside.
  8. Dip the cookies in the honey.
  9. You can decorate with some sprinkles.