I'm Turning 60... Carmela Soprano's Sfingi (St. Joseph's Day Zeppole)


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For St. Joseph's Day, The Bronx's Little Italy is a great destination for purchasing Zeppole di San. [+] Giuseppe and Sfingi di San Giuseppe. Many bakeries are along Arthur Avenue. Falling on.


SFINGI DI SAN GIUSEPPE PALERMITANI..SAINT JOSEPH’S SFINGI PASTRY

Heat oven to 400ºF (200ºC) Begin preparing the choux pastry by placing the butter, sugar and water in a medium sized saucepan over medium heat. Bring it to a rolling boil. Next, add the flour all at once, and stir vigorously with a wooden spoon for about a minute until the mixture forms a ball.


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Bake in 400 degree oven for 10 minutes; reduce heat to 325 degrees and bake 30 minutes or until golden brown. Make a slit in the side of each and fill with the pasticciera cream or ricotta filling. To make the ricotta filling, first cream the ricotta well. Add chocolate chips, orange peel and sugar.


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Ingredients. Zeppole di San Giuseppe can be baked a deep-fried but the recipe and ingredients stay the same. For Choux Pasty Dough. Bread flour - the dough needs to puff up significantly in the oven and only bread flour with high gluten content (at least 12% protein) can hold up such a huge expansion.; Water - some use milk or a mix of both.Milk makes pastry shells a little softer.


Sfingi di San Giuseppe Classic Italian Donuts for St. Joseph's Day

Step 5. Use a large spoon to portion the dough evenly among the 16 muffin pan wells. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until the sfingi are a light golden brown, then rotate the pan (s) front to back.


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Preparation. Place the sugar, egg yolks, flour, lemon rind and vanilla extract in saucepan and mix well. Scald the milk and pour over mixture, beating constantly with rotary beater. Continue cooking over a low flame, stirring with wooden spoon until mixture reaches the boiling point. Cook for an additional 4 minutes, stirring constantly.


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The St. Joseph zeppole are also called Sfingi and are a cream puff type pastry. Totally different than these zeppole which are more of a Neopolitan style treat. Both are delicious, but completely different. I'm lucky enough to live in Hoboken where the St. Ann Society ladies make the most delicious zeppole for the feast of St. Ann every July.


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Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and whisk to combine. Set aside. In a large bowl or cup with a pouring lip, add yeast and ¼ cup sugar to warm water and stir to dissolve. Add the vanilla and stir to combine. Let the yeast bloom for 5 minutes. In a stand mixer, pour the yeast mixture into the mixer bowl.


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Cover and refrigerate several hours or overnight. To make the puffs, bring the water, the butter and the salt to a boil over medium heat. Remove from the heat, add the flour all at once and stir well with a wooden spoon until the flour is completely incorporated. Return the saucepan to medium heat. Cook, stirring constantly and turning the.


Sal and Jerry’s St. Joseph Sfingi (note the difference between these

Spread dough for cooling. Let it rest for about 10 minutes. Take the cooled dough and put into a bowl. Add the 4 egg, mixing in one egg at a time. Beat with a hand mixer until you have a very smooth mix. Heat 2 inches of oil in a pot. Bring to 325 degrees. Using a large soup spoon, place spoonful size of dough into the oil.


Bignè di san Giuseppe (St. Joseph's Day Cream Puffs) Memorie di Angelina

A look at how to make an Italian version of fried dough for St. Joseph's Day.


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Bake at 400F for about 10 minutes, reduce heat to 325F and bake for 30 minutes more or until golden brown. Remove from oven, carefully cut a small slit horizontally into the side of each puff, place on a rack to cool. When completely cooled, carefully slice each puff in half horizontally (forming a top and a bottom).


I'm Turning 60... Carmela Soprano's Sfingi (St. Joseph's Day Zeppole)

METHOD: Mix ricotta, eggs, flour, sugar, baking powder and salt all together in a large bowl. In large pot or deep fryer, heat oil to 375°. Carefully drop a spoonful of sfingi dough into the hot oil. Make sure to fry the doughs in few batches and not too many at a time.


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Sfingi Are a St. Joseph's Day Tradition. Every year my mother coordinates a St. Joseph's day table at her church and makes about 300 sfingi for the event. 200 are served at the table and about 100 are reserved for all of the volunteers. This is Mom's thank you for all of the work everyone does to help her with her devotion to the patron.


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St. Joseph Sfingi. Both sfingi and zeppole are Italian donuts, and you will see the names often used interchangeably. While both are enjoyed on St. Joseph's Day, there are subtle differences between them. Zeppole is a Neopolitan fried donut that uses yeast while sfingi's delicate and light texture doesn't need to rise! Another distinction.


St. Joseph's Pastry

Drop the dough by heaping tablespoon onto parchment-lined cookie sheet, leaving at least 2 inches between the sfingi. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool. For the filling, mix the ricotta, confectioner sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate, and pistachios. *Just before serving*, cut off the tops of the sfingi.

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