Sweet biscuits, sweet wine and a bit of poetry

Mostaccioli, or tozzetti, are delicious  and easy to do Christmas cookies. Every Italian family has its own recipe (sometimes a secret one). This is my husband's way to make our biscuits: using childhood memories, a couple of suggestions and personal taste.
These biscuits are better to taste some days after you have made them, to lessen the "theet breaker" effect , or , dipped  into a sweet wine such as Passito, Stillato, Albana, Malvasia, Vinsanto. You can dip them in coffee or tea as well.
 During Christmas holidays, late at night, I like stay in my armachair, with a plate of mostaccioli, a glass of that wonderful Stillato, listening to one of the most beautiful song ever written: Thunder Road (music and lyrics by Bruce Springsteen, 1975)
I loved this song at first hearing, more than a quarter of century ago (when it was released, I was too busy in playing with my dolls to care about...).Still nowadays, when life has taught me that dreams not ever come true,  "the chance to trade wings for wheels remains the beautiful poem that invites to search for your own promised land, leaving behind  the metaphoric, or even  real, town full of losers.


Recipe: Mostaccioli Fabrizio style

Ingredients:

200-250 gr all purpose flour
150 gr honey
1 egg
2 tablespoon lukewarm water
200 gr almonds
1 teaspoon ground pepper
2 teaspoon ground cinnamon


Preheat oven 180°. Melt the honey in a saucepan with 2 tablespoon of water over low heat.
Mix in a bowl flour, almond, pepper, cinnamon (add or reduce the amount according to your taste). Add the egg and the melted honey. If the dough is too hard add water using a tablespoon at time.
Make 3 flat loaves and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Remove the loaves from oven, and cut into small slices.
Put the biscuits into a baking tin and bake again for 8-10 minutes, or until they take a darker colour.



My favourite meditation wine:

Sweet biscuits, sweet wine and a bit of poetry

The poem I was thinking about...