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My grandmother used to make these when I was a kid. I wish I had gotten recipes for the things I really liked.
She just called them Hungarian cookies. No she wasn't Hungarian she was Italian but the community had a lot of Greeks Italians and Slavic people and she had gotten the recipe from some friend of hers.
Ive looked around and they seem to have a lot of names. sometimes Butterhorns. however that seems to be the name of quite a variety of cookies.
The ones in the picture seem to be most like the ones she made.
I remember watching her make them once or twice but I was a little kid. I remember her rolling out dough quite thin. I remember there were some very finely crushed nuts sprinkled evenly on it. perhaps walnuts.
Then I think honey maybe and then they were rolled up and sprinkled with powdered sugar. I'm not completely sure I'm remembering it right.
What I do remember is I could eat a whole plate of these when I was a kid. best cookie type treat I ever had.

Anyone familiar with these and maybe know some recipies?

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SocialD said:
My grandmother used to make these when I was a kid. I wish I had gotten recipes for the things I really liked.
She just called them Hungarian cookies. No she wasn't Hungarian she was Italian but the community had a lot of Greeks Italians and Slavic people and she had gotten the recipe from some friend of hers.
Ive looked around and they seem to have a lot of names. sometimes Butterhorns. however that seems to be the name of quite a variety of cookies.
The ones in the picture seem to be most like the ones she made.
I remember watching her make them once or twice but I was a little kid. I remember her rolling out dough quite thin. I remember there were some very finely crushed nuts sprinkled evenly on it. perhaps walnuts.
Then I think honey maybe and then they were rolled up and sprinkled with powdered sugar. I'm not completely sure I'm remembering it right.
What I do remember is I could eat a whole plate of these when I was a kid. best cookie type treat I ever had.

Anyone familiar with these and maybe know some recipies?

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Cenci is what my Italian side of the family called them. They use to make them every Christmas. They are Tuscan I believe. IIRC there are other names for them.

Frappe or Cioffe: Bows and Ribbons of Fried Sweetened Dough - Christina's Cucina

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sorry; no recipe, but it did make me think of this

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SocialD said:
My grandmother used to make these when I was a kid. I wish I had gotten recipes for the things I really liked.
She just called them Hungarian cookies. No she wasn't Hungarian she was Italian but the community had a lot of Greeks Italians and Slavic people and she had gotten the recipe from some friend of hers.
Ive looked around and they seem to have a lot of names. sometimes Butterhorns. however that seems to be the name of quite a variety of cookies.
The ones in the picture seem to be most like the ones she made.
I remember watching her make them once or twice but I was a little kid. I remember her rolling out dough quite thin. I remember there were some very finely crushed nuts sprinkled evenly on it. perhaps walnuts.
Then I think honey maybe and then they were rolled up and sprinkled with powdered sugar. I'm not completely sure I'm remembering it right.
What I do remember is I could eat a whole plate of these when I was a kid. best cookie type treat I ever had.

Anyone familiar with these and maybe know some recipies?

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Looking up crescent cookies I found these which seem like what you might be looking for.The top one looks like what you are most likely trying to find.

Balkan Walnut Crescent Cookies (Kifle) Recipe
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Rugelach - Saving Room for Dessert
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jamesrage said:
Looking up crescent cookies I found these which seem like what you might be looking for.The top one looks like what you are most likely trying to find.

Balkan Walnut Crescent Cookies (Kifle) Recipe
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Rugelach - Saving Room for Dessert
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Yea that's part of why it was confusing looking into it. you have names like Kifle and rugleach. I think Kifle is the Slavic name for them which makes sense as it was former yogoslavian women that were some of my grandmothers friends who I believe she learned these from.
 
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