Rolled Wafers (Cialdoni)
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 80 g flour
- 30 g blond sugar
- 20 g virgin lard
- 7 spoonfuls cold water
Instructions
- Dissolve flour and sugar in the water, then stir in the lard.
- Cook half-spoonfuls in a hot wafer iron on both sides until hazelnut coloured, trimming overflow.
- Roll each wafer at once while hot around a cane tube; grease the iron if they stick, add flour if they don't hold.