| Title: | How to Make them Goodies | 
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    Does anyone have any good recipes for cannoli fillings?  I need the
    basic ricotta filling recipe and any other variations would be
    appreciated.  There don't seem to be any in the file already.
    
    				Thanks,
    				Mary
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| 3053.1 | MR4DEC::MAHONEY | Thu May 23 1991 09:53 | 8 | ||
|     I only use ricotta cheese and powder sugar to taste
    and few drops of vanilla, it's so easy!
    
    I make my own canollis, fry them and keep them in airtight contained
    till ready to be served, then I fill them and springle sugar over them.
    
    Ana
    
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| 3053.2 | TIMBER::HACHE | Gimme Sleep | Thu May 23 1991 13:41 | 10 | |
|     
    Sweetened ricotta (see -1) is a great base for all kinds
    of flavorings (and is the traditional filling).  I add
    different liquours or rum instead of vanilla.
    
    I sometimes add instant pistachio or chocolate pudding mix 
    instead of sugar.
    
    dm
    
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| 3053.3 | My mom is 100% italian | NEWPRT::WAGNER_BA | Thu May 23 1991 19:24 | 2 | |
|     Isn't this recipe supposed to include grated chocolate and chopped
    candied fruits?  When my mom makes em I pick out the fruit!
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| 3053.5 | NOVA::RUBINO | Wed May 29 1991 14:32 | 29 | ||
|     
    This has always been an interesting topic to me. Coming from
    an Italian family in New York I never saw anything but 1 kind
    of Cannoli filling until moving to New England where I was
    introduced to chocolate, Vanilla, Lemon, puddings etc...
    
    The traditional Ricotta based filling is cinnamon based, and you
    need a cinnamon oil to make it (you can get the cinnamon oil in
    an Italian Pastry shop, I recently found some in the North End of
    Boston) or in a pinch use ground cinnamon.
    
    Start with Ricotta cheese that has been well drained, you might
    want to let it sit on top of a cheesecloth to remove as much
    water as possible. The other trick is to really stir it and remove
    the lumps. So many restaurants in this area serve Cannolis that
    have water in them and have a grainy testure. The cream should be
    dry, thick and smooth. No lumps or grainy texture.
    
    To the cheese add confectioners sugar, touch of Vanilla extract,
    touch of cinnamon oil, miniature chocolate chips and citron candy.
    Stir well. Fill the cannoli shells with a spoon or a pastry bag,
    dust with more powdered sugar and serve immediately. You can not
    keep filled cannoli for more than a few hours as the shell will
    get soggy.
    
    Enjoy with a good cup of espresso!
    
    mike
    
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| 3053.6 | STAR::HEERMANCE | Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | Mon Jun 10 1991 09:06 | 10 | |
|     Re: .5
    
    > dust with more powdered sugar and serve immediately. You can not
    > keep filled cannoli for more than a few hours as the shell will
    > get soggy.
    
    Right on.  Soggy cannoli's are the pits.
    
    Martin
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| 3053.7 | Shell? | WLDWST::KLYDIE | U_Move_Me | Fri Jan 24 1992 21:11 | 5 | 
|     Anyone have a recipe how to make the cannoli pastry shell?
    
    
    
    KJL
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| 3053.8 | you'll fry for that -:) | TNPUBS::STEINHART | Mon Feb 03 1992 15:43 | 17 | |
|     Buy em in a box at De Moulas Market Basket.
    
    else
    
    Fill the deep fat fryer
    Get a special cannoli mold
    .
    .
    .
    
    return to De Moulas
    
    Better to make a superlative filling, imho.  Gotta be ricotta cheese as
    a base.
    
    Laura
    
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