Chiacchere (Gossip)

Chiacchere (Gossip):

( This recipe is By Nuxia )

It's the original recipe, there is also the version that you find in the oven right after this.

Ingredients

400 g of flour

3 eggs

50 g of sugar

50 g of butter

1/2 glass of spirits (holy wine, white wine, marsala)

1 pinch of salt
 icing sugar

zest of 1/2 lemon zests eed

 oil to taste.


Procedure:

Mix eggs with sugar, add melted butter, zest, liquor and then the flour and a pinch of salt until the dough is quite elastic. Roll out thin and cut with a cutter striped rectangles. Fry in hot vegetable oil, drain on absorbent paper and sprinkle with powdered sugar.A typical dessert that comes back every year for Carnival! The recipe of the talk is the most typical and the most simple, perhaps, among the sweets of Carnival ... We can find all over Italy, though called by different names: in Friuli called grostoli in sfrappole Emilia, Veneto Galani, in the Marche - frappe, rags in Tuscany, Campania chatter. Then there are the names: lettuce and lies that always the same sweet ...Variations of the recipe depending on the region of origin are the liquor or wine used in the preparation of the dessert: the marsala, white wine, brandy or anisette.

Recipe of the  2012/02/15