Italian Wine Biscuits. The Perfect Recipe to Eliminate Food Packaging Waste

I went live on Instagram to make rustic Italian wine biscuits with red wine, oil, flour, and a little sugar, keeping it simple and flexible. 

During the episode I talk about how the dough feels, shaping tricks, and why homemade snacks beat packaged ones. 

• I made half of a heritage Italian wine biscuit recipe. 

• Adjusting baking powder and trusting a forgiving dough 

• Mixing in the bowl and kneading to get a good amount of elasticity into the dough.  

• Shaped coils into rings, braids and figure eights 

• brushing egg wash and sprinkling sugar for a crisp finish 
• baking at 375°F for forty minutes, turning the tray at 20 minutes 

• Help to eliminate food packaging waste by making cookies and stovetop popcorn 

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and the video on: https://youtu.be/MPGX-c9rTDU?si=heX3JpXxGmNG0eRG 

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Transcript

Going Live And Why Today

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Hi my friends. Looks like I may be live making Italian wine biscuits. I didn't think I would do this live, but I'm like, yeah, I'm going to because it's the day before Passover and I've wanted to make them. I've had everything around, which are basic staples anyway. I'm going to give them to my friends that don't partake in dealing with Passover. I first made these, of course, using a heritage traditional recipe, which calls for four to five cups of flour. I'm doing half of a traditional recipe. What I have here today that I'm going to share with you is half of that. So here I have two cups of flour. Here I have half a cup of red wine, half a cup of vegetable oil. And for the sugar, I did a quarter of a cup of sugar into the dry ingredients, the flour. And I did put a quarter of a cup of the sugar into the oil and bread wine. The recipe, a number of them call for baking powder, a tablespoon. I am sure this is a very forgiving recipe. I'm going to do a teaspoon, which is actually a third of a tablespoon. And then, as I said in here, I also have a quarter cup of the sugar. When I first made these Italian wine biscuits, which I did at work, the red wine where I work is so expensive, I was like, forget it, I'm just using the white wine. And that I definitely put fennel seeds in. With the red wine, I'm just going to go with the traditional doesn't call for it, but if you're using white wine, you might want to do it. Make a well and get the liquid in here. I'm going to just, you know, whisk this up again a little bit.

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Shaping Coils Rings And Bow Ties

Egg Wash Sugar And Passover Plans

Bake Results Tasting And Goodbye

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And you can see I put down this cloth on my table because I am going to gently knead this once we get this, what they call this raggy dough in here. And yeah. Also, one recipe that I looked at said, oh, you should definitely have rubber gloves because your hands could get stained from the red wine. Who thinks I followed that instruction? The oven is preheated to 375. I have a cookie sheet with some parchment, you know, parchment paper on it. And these will bake off for 40 minutes, and at 20 minutes I will turn them around in the oven. So this has really come together quite nicely. Um get I'm going to get my hands in here. You know what? You don't even really need to take it out and knead it on the table. You can just do it right here in the bowl. No, I'm going to take it out of the bowl just so you can see it a little bit better. And then what you do is you pinch off little balls and make coils. I'll show you. You'll see. Make cookies. Avoid food packaging waste. This is so easy. Italians, they're genius with their food. That's all I can say. Yeah, look, this is the cookie sheet. I hope you can see that. But you can do all the, you know, different shapes. It's so funny because what got me into this is I was home in Rhode Island and my mom had wine biscuits, but they were they looked like hot dogs. They were pink and just looked like hot dogs. And I was like, what is that? I could see the package said, oh, they're wine biscuits. And I was like, oh my god, they look so unappealing, looking like Willie's, whatever. So I started looking at recipes. I'm just gonna make them round. A lot of people make like bow ties or figure eights and twist them. I'm gonna put a little flour on my hands and a little on the cloth. They actually rolls really well on my cutting board at work, so I think I'm gonna just give that a go, also. Let's let's see how it goes on the cloth. I want to see, we'll experiment. Because the cleanup would be a whole lot easier if I do it on here, but but it's nice. It's just fine. So you start with one hand and then you're gonna roll like this. They say get an eight-inch coil. Now, if you think I really measured it. There we go. Once you get a coil, I'm just gonna make a little circle. Like that. It's gonna be very rustic. I think what I'm gonna do is build up a little bit more gluten here. That's what needs to be done. You got the idea. It's going to work. It's very rustic, it's very easy. You're a delicious cookie. I am gonna need this a little bit more just to get it more elastic-y. And this is not hard what I'm doing at all. Take a little like this, a little piece like this, get it in your hands, make a coil. And certainly with bacon, it really takes your attention and some time. You see, now it's so much better than when I just rushed right into it. And this has to do with mindfulness. So look how nice this is coming out. You gotta give your food your tender, loving care. So that's it. And you just a lot of the ones I've seen look something like this, like a figure eight, they call it like a bow tie. That I've seen. But a lot of them are just rings. And then that's it. Take it, do it again. It's just, it's so much fun. And then what we'll do is once I get the tray full of them, then I'm gonna do one egg lightly beaten with a tablespoon of water, and then brush them, and then sprinkle them with some sugar, and then put them in the oven for uh 375 for 40 minutes, and at 20 minutes I'm gonna turn them around. So with one hand, just you know, start to get it warm. It's the day before Passover. Anybody want to know what I'm making? I'm making asparagus and leeks braised and roasted, and then I'm doing a salmon with a great, like a crust of brown sugar, some paprika, maybe some dried mustard, and and then I'm gonna do deviled eggs also. And I got beautiful matzah, schmer matza that they were giving away on the streets, and um some kind of meringues. I'll do something for dessert. I'm gonna just make some more cookies. So I'll be right back to put the egg wash on. Thanks very much. Hi my friends, there you have it. And like I said, I've made um, you know, I lightly beaten one egg and put some table a tablespoon of cold water in here, coat the Italian wine biscuits, and then I'll make a lightly scrambled egg after this. And I always have one of you know, this kind of brush around. Just wash it very well, pour hot boiling water over it, and that's it. I hope you and whoever gets to watch this thoroughly enjoys it. I'm always happy to help, you know, find good recipes and fun things to make and anything to really uh avoid food packaging waste like the popcorn. Make popcorn, you don't need to buy it in a bag. And then same with cookies. They don't it doesn't take a lot of time. I'm very lucky that I get to do this, and I do work too. Oh, let's sprinkle them with a little sugar. Can you see what I'm doing? That's it. Little bowl. And then just little sprinkles like that. Oh, we forgot the bird song. It's always something, you know. Whoa, now it's really loud, too. But if you have any questions, my website's really fun to look at. You can contact me there. There might be an opt-in, there might not be. I have no idea. I'm still trying to figure out how to do an email campaign. I would love that because I love my writing. And I think it would be a nice way to keep in touch and have you all forewarned for what I'm thinking about. There you go. Right into the oven. I'm gonna note the time. So I hope you're enjoying this recipe for survival of Italian wine biscuits and helping to avoid food packaging waste. Hi, my friends. So it's hours ago now that the wine biscuits came out of the oven. Exactly 40 minutes. I turned them around at 20 minutes. That's a little bit dark for me, but I do, you know, my oven definitely runs hot. But they are so good. We're gonna have them with wine right now. This is the first time I made the braids. They're perfect, they last forever. I take it out figure eight. Oh my god. So good. All organic, no food packaging waste. Not a lot of sugar. Genius recipe. Four ingredients. It's fun to make. You definitely have to take some time to get the dough to work right. Go see if you like it or not. Otherwise, you know what to do. Go find something you like to eat and make, just don't buy it in a package. Alright, my friends. Talk to you soon. Find me on recipes for survival. I'm trying to work on my newsletter. Thank you.