Clara’s Holiday Special! Cucidati Fig Cookies Part I Recipe: Cucidati Cookies (Sicilian Cookies by Clara) FILLING Boil 2 cups of water and add 1/2 cups sugar. Let cook. 3/4 cups shelled hazel nuts 1/2 cups shelled almonds 1/2 cups shelled walnuts 1/2 cups shelled pecans Toast all nuts on cookie sheet separately (different nuts take different times to toast). Grind together with nuts: 1/2 lb. diced candied fruit 1/4 lb. dark raisins 1/4 lb. light raisins 1/4 lb. dates (pitted) 1 orange with …
Holiday Cooking: Sicilian Fig Cookies – Part I
Holiday Cooking: Sicilian Fig Cookies – Part I
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Clara, you’re right – expensive!! I just bought the ingredients for mine. I use rum instead of whiskey. I zest the orange…I skip the candied fruit, although my nonna used to use it.
Omg! I absolutely LOVE family traditions…. and this here is amazing…. And Clara is too adorable. She reminds me of my grandma who is 96 years old in central america… =)
I loved it, so reminded me of my own grandmothers who lived through the depression. Their food processor must be heavy duty, I burned mine up trying to grind dates, LOL. Every year I think I’ll make these but run out of time.
She reminds me of my Mom. *sigh* .. (love)
Please enjoy your Nana whilst you can. My Mum has Dementia and although she is twenty years younger I’ve lost her. You are blessed.
will u be my NANA…
Ur wonderful
glad I found and subbed to u.
What a sweet lady! I’ll bet your granddaughters adore you! Thanks for sharing this!
christmas ftw
And then so you should make cookies with your family to discuss it. This will be the fourth year that our family and friends (over 50 – 1/5th traveling from out of town) will gather to make our family’s version of fig cookies (resurected from decades old recipes) over a four-day period before Christmas. We eat and drink and discuss and debate and dance and cooperate and shop and bake and clean and kiss and enjoy like no other family event ever. Better than Christmas. Neosporin for the soul.
My mom loves you clara!!!ME too..
God bless
wow cucidati non c e nulla di piu buono al mondo
This was wonderful! Thank you, Clara!! I can see why my Nana doesnt make these anymore! That’s a lot of work for one person!
watch this show always makes me miss my great grandma
Wow Cucidati…we dont make them too often anymore, with figs and dates being so expensive
My great aunt (born in 1914, oldest girl in family of 11 kids) told me it was her job to wash the big cooking pots. She decided not to do them & starting hiding them outside in the chicken house.
After a few days her mom wondered where all the pots were. Her brother told and she had to spend 4 hours cleaning them all up and only had bread and chicken broth for dinner. She still hated cleaning the pots. My favorite uncle (born in 1907) always washed the pots; they cooked & canned together.
Who cares that you are 93 years old, that is young by todays standards.
Thank you Clara for your videos. I love watching them. God Bless you Clara.
just like home. <3
Awesome video! My family is Sicilian too. My grandparents, or Nana and Nanu, are 87 and 86 and also make cucciddati. I remember making them with them when I was a kid, standing on a stool to reach the counter.
The process is almost the same, although our filling has less ingredients. We make the filling and dough, then fill them, cutting them on an angle like that and putting slits on one side, and then we frost and sprinkle them. My grandparents put them on the bed for storage too!
Clara you rock! I just love your videos!!
This is great!!! I showed this to my mom the other day and we decided to make these cookies. They were great! Thanks Clara.
I love her.
Clara Dear, You are amazing and I am so grateful that you made this video for all of us who need a little coaching to carry on our family traditions. Many thanks to your family for making this and sharing it with all of us! You are the very best!
Dear Clara,
I truly enjoyed your video. My mother and I make Cucidati
every year. my mom grows and dries her own figs. This year we
made 800 of Cudidati’s. Your recipe is similar to my Nona’ who was from Siclily . I am the only one of my sisters who has learned to make all of the traditional Italian cookies.
Thanks for sharing . It’ worth all the work to have these cookies.
Sicily
I’ve learned if you wanna live to be in your 90’s (extra salt)
OH MY Goodness!!!! that like almost 30 things in that cookie Nooo way.
And like 3/4 of a bag of flower wow that’s allot of cookies