DAY Recipe

MINIATURE FENNEL ROLLS

Makes about 48 small rolls.

INGREDIENTS
1 3/4 cups warm water (105° -115° f.)

2 1/2 teaspoons (a 1/4-ounce package) active dry yeast

2 tablespoons fennel seeds

5 1/2 cups organic unbleached bread flour* or unbleached all-purpose flour plus additional if [...]

Makes about 36 cookies.

INGREDIENTS
1 cup firmly packed dried figs (as soft as possible)

1 cup firmly packed pitted dates

1/3 cup water

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated refined sugar

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon ground anise seeds

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 [...]

Makes about 55 cookies.

INGREDIENTS
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened

1/4 cup vegetable shortening

1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar

1/4 cup granulated sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon double-acting baking powder

1/2 teaspoon aniseed

3/4 cup pine nuts, [...]

Light cookies are filled with dessert-wine ice cream and fruit. The recipe makes about six cookies, so there’s an allowance for breakage or extras for nibbling.

Serves 4.

INGREDIENTS
ice cream

1 1/2 cups cream

1/2 cup half and half

2/3 cup sugar

4 large [...]

Also called bimuelos, these are a typical Sephardic Hanukkah dessert. The oil in which they are deep-fried commemorates the time during the second century B. C. when a vial of oil, enough for only one day, is said to have burned in the Temple for eight days after the Jews’ victory over their Syrian oppressors.

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