Seseme Seed Anise Cookie Recipe
In Angelo’s words
As a kid, we always looked forward to the onset of the Holiday season. Our house always seemed to have ora of sweet spices from Thanksgiving through New Years. I think it was amplified by the fact that every house in the neighborhood was cooking Christmas cookies, pies, cakes and every other gourmet pastery reserved for that special time of year.
Thank God, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Saint Joseph’s Day, and Easter only come one day a year. Those are the main feast days our family celebrated by cooking meals and tasty treats that left and abundance of savory treats for weeks to come. We celebrated Saint Patrick’s Day and Dingus Day too, but we left the cooking to the specialists in those feast days.
For now we’ll concentrate on the Christmas holiday season and I’ll give you a few of my favorite Christmas recipe’s. One of my favorite is actually a combination of two Italian cookies. I don’t know who came up with the idea, my mother or grand-mother, or if it was either of their idea’s. I don’t know if it was an accident or done on purpose, but I do know it makes a delicious cookie. Its a comination of a sesame cookie and an anise cookie. Some people don’t like the flavor of anise (sort of a liqurish), so all you need do is leave out the anise extract and you have sesame cookies.
Family notes
None yet. Notes from the family will appear here, signed and dated, and kept apart from Angelo’s words.
From the archive
Restored · 2012 capture- Originally published
- , 3:46 am, on angelobiondo.com by Angelo Biondo (post No. 113)
- Filed under
- Cookie Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Family Favorites
- Restored from
- Internet Archive capture of — view the original page
- Also captured
- Transcription
Angelo’s words are unchanged, spelling included.
- The recipe heading spells “Sesame” correctly and the post title spells it “Seseme”; each is kept as printed.
- One step was broken across two lines (“…your index (middle) finger and / cut into 2″ sections.”); the lines are joined.
- The byline “By: Angelo Biondo” is not repeated.
- Open questions
Left exactly as published, for the family to confirm.
- Vanilla is added twice: with the eggs (“the sugar, anise extract, vanilla extract, and the pinch of salt”) and again in the next step (“Add vanilla, and sift in baking powder.”). One teaspoon is listed.
- Not carried over
- A spam link (“Buy Cialis”) injected mid-sentence by a site compromise: “we left the cooking to [spam] the specialists”. The 2009 copies don’t have it.
- An affiliate banner for antivirus software (VIPRE) under the byline. It is advertising, not part of the recipe.