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Friday, December 6, 2013

ITALIAN-AMERICAN: Pittsburgh does it big!! 24,000 cookies made by December 7, 2013 - St. Rita's Parish - Photos, Recipes and Videos

With her husband in tow, Rita Pratt said that she 


buys about  800 pounds of flour;


 400 pounds each of powdered 


and granulated sugar and 120 dozen 


eggs for the pizzelles, biscotti and knots.



    

Pizzelles came originally from 

the Abruzzo section of Italy 






  

  


Biscotti came originally from 


the Genoa (Liguria) section of Italy (first recipe), 


however very popular in all of Italy (variations from 


Catalonia and Tuscany, etc.) 






    


Knots came originally from 

the Calabria section of Italy









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