Biscotti Regina
aka 'Angel's Turds'...Heavenly Sicilian Sesame Seed Cookies
Though known as Reginelle or Biscotti Regina (the Queen’s Cookies) throughout Sicily, these short and flaky biscuits studded with sesame seeds and laced with lemon zest are sometimes called by their dialect names, strunzi di ciòcca (chicken turds) or strunzi di àncilu (angel turds).
It’s a kind of culinary onomatopoeia, as they are simply being called…
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