These are one version of these delicious Sicilian Christmas Cookies. They have a thicker cookie part filled with a fig mixture.
This is 4 pounds of Flour, add to it 4 cups of Crisco, 2 tablespoons of Vanilla, 2 cups of Sugar, 2 tablespoons of Baking Powder. As you can see they are using an oven pan to put all the ingredients in and combine, until they are ready to take it onto the table top.
Add 5 beaten eggs to this mountain of ingredients, and combine it all together.
Mix it until all the flour is combined. Add a little scalded milk if the dough mixture is too dry.
Roll the cookie dough into logs. Slice the dough about an inch thick. Flatten it out and put some fig mixture in the middle as you see above. Then close it up.
After rolling up the dough with the fig mixture, you slice it to reveal the filling. Place them on an oven pan.
This is the fig mixture filling for these cookies. It consists of mashed up figs, dates, orange zest, honey, clove powder.
For the glaze you will mix a cup of confectioners sugar with water and a squeeze of lemon. Add the water a little at a time until you get a thin consistency that will allow you to brush it onto the cookie, or simply smear it on with you hands as you see us doing!
Beating a mixture of confectioners sugar with water and a squeeze of lemon. Only add enough water to make a thin mixture to be brushed on to the top of each cookie after the have cooled. Drop sprinkles on the cookies while the sugar glaze is still wet.
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Wow, my grandma (from Sicily) used to make those cookies. I haven’t had them in years! I’m tempted to try making them myself after reading this… but I’m not sure if my attempt will match the memory.
Hello David! Thank you for writing. There are many recipes for these Sicilian Fig Cookies online. Mine comes right from my mother and other Sicilian friends from my mother’s town in Sicily. The most tricky part is making the fig filling. The cookie dough part is easy. So make a small batch first. I’m sure they will be good! And even just the plain cookie dough makes great cookies, shaped like a little bar or “ess” S.
Thank you so much for visiting,
Margaret
I just realized I don’t have the amounts for the fig mixture ingredients, I will try to get that on here. Thank you!