Talk:Pizzelle

message: According to Italiancookingandliving.com, pizzelle is a wafer-type cookie that originated in the region of Abruzzo.  They are traditionally flavored with vanilla and/or anise.  According to Chef's choice, the irons used to make the earliest pizzeles were embossed with the family crest.  The pizzelles were made in these irons by cooking over an open fire.  The most popular modern patterns are floral on one side and a basket-like, woven pattern on the other.  
Most often served plain or sprinkled with confectioner's sugar, pizzelles can also be rolled when hot and filled with whipped cream and fruit, or can be used to make ice cream sandwiches.
The Abruzzo region in Italy is also the region which celebrates the festival of the snakes (Festa di serpi).  It is often said that pizzelles were developed for this celebration, which commemorates a time when snakes which had overrun the region were driven out.
Also sicily makes Pizzelle but with black licorise instead of vanilla
Ouside of the region of Abruzzi in Italy, most people do not know about pizzelles.  However, they have become very popular in America, where they can be rolled and filled, as suggested by American pizzelle-maker companies.
:I agree about the sentence "outside of the region of Abruzzi in Italy, most people do not know about pizzelles". Here in Turin, Northern Italy, you'll unlikely find someone who knows what a pizzella is (unless they have Abruzzese descent or some specific Central or Southern Italian ancestry) and I'm definitely one of these people, even though I have some Southern Italian descent - not from Abruzzo though. It's nice to know we have waffles in Italy too, I mean waffles belonging to the Italian tradition, I was actually searching for a translation of the word waffle in Italian. I think that ferratella is the best way to render it, the root of the word is Italian ferrata or, more commonly, inferriata ("iron grate, grating"), referring to the distinctive grid motif of ferratelle, which is just the same as waffles.--Teno85 (talk) 02:22, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think pizzelle is also known in Celano, but there it is called "nevole" instead. (Some of my relatives are Celano and it is what they called it.) --Zzo38 (talk) 06:01, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevole is also another word for pizzelle, I will add that to the article. ... discospinster talk 14:23, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
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message: I've added a bit more information about the pizzelle, and removed the recipe.  I think the article can stay in Wikipedia, even if a recipe is added to WikiCookBooks.  I'm going to remove the tag.  If that's premature, feel free to put it back. 24.141.150.61 01:19, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good, no need to move it to wikicookbooks now.  --Xyzzyplugh 06:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Pizzelle isn't the most used name, Ferrarelle is the wide used name in Italian and Neole or Nevole is mostly used in Abruzzo region. 79.42.100.232 (talk) 21:21, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most used name 

message: In the Abruzzo region it is very uncommon to serve cannoli at wedding, they're not a traditional dessert.
Same with the filling: never heard about two ferratelle filled with ricotta, traditionally a sort of grape jam (sometime mixed with other ingredients like cocoa, cioccolate, nuts etc.) is used. 79.42.100.232 (talk) 21:27, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannoli citations 

message: I did not see the technical request to move this page to "Pizzella" but if I did I would have opposed it. "Pizzelle" is the common name in English, even in the singular, and it's hardly ever called "Pizzella". See e.g. Broccoli (Broccolo in Italian). Unless someone disagrees with this, I am going to move it back. ... discospinster talk 15:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Pizzella 

message: I would like to remove the "pizzelle" repetition, does anyone have any advice? "They" has already been used. "Pizzelle can be molded into various shapes, including in the tubular shape of cannoli."; "Pizzelle were originally made in the comune (municipality) of Ortona, in the Abruzzo region of Italy." JacktheBrown (talk) 13:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repetition