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Dizzy_Ad_7622 t1_izpacko wrote

Discard appropiately...if you will

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Awesomest_Possumest t1_izpkc0q wrote

My mom has had one since the 80s. It's a waffle maker/pizzelle maker, removable cast iron plates that you just flip. I think hers is rival, which is always surprising to me because it's not a bifl brand now as far as I know.

I keep finding them in thrift stores but they still die after a couple of years. :( One day I'll have a full-sized one again, but I currently have a mini 3 one.

I should say we don't make pizzelles though, but use the Italian cialde recipe that came with moms maker. Uses anisette and anise seed and is more batter than dough. Amazing. No flour, just sugar, water, oil, egg, anise seed and anisette, and some vanilla flavoring. I've got to pull out the recipe for our work bake off Monday!

Edit-recipe!

1 cup sugar 1 egg 2 tsp vanilla (extract usually) 2 tbsp anise flavored liqueur (anisette) 2 tbsp salad oil (I just use veggie oil) 2/3 cup water 1 1/4 cup flour (thought it didn't use any, whoops!) 1 tsp whole anise seed

Combine all except the last two ingredients. Best well to blend. Stir in the flour and anise seed. Bake as directed for pizzelles.

I haven't made them in a year and haven't made the full sized in awhile, but I want to say one batch is about 40 cookies maybe? I usually double it around the holidays.

I think we usually do regular size for about two minutes give or take, and my minis take around 45 seconds. Depends on what the humidity is doing. We rolled them when I was a kid and sprinkled powdered sugar on, but I'm lazy and so they're flat now haha.

We also eyeball the anisette and anise seeds and put as much as the spirit moves us to.

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Dead_deaf_roommate t1_izpvt4c wrote

These things are the best. The old school ones have an equal chance of lasting 100 years or burning the house down.

All that said, I hope to inherit my mom’s pizelle iron.

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Juache45 t1_izq3cft wrote

Replying to H2Joee (#902,568)

I had never heard of these until a couple of weeks ago…. My friend is Italian and she uses these to make them during the holidays, it’s a tradition in her family.

Edit to add: Not sure if she makes actual “Pizelles”

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tinylittlebee t1_izq6p9v wrote

And she kept it in an immaculate state, if only I was this good to the things I own.

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tagehring t1_izq74yq wrote

I love your spoons. You really do need them to handle the resulting batter, it's not quite the same consistency as anything else in my experience. :)

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AZBeer90 t1_izqnmlv wrote

I have the same one and it's probably the same age. Was my grandma's then my mom's then mine. My grandma would be rolling in her grave to know I make flavored pizelles like chocolate orange or maple walnut. To her (and all the rest of my aunt's) pizelles we're anise and only anise.

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Oryx_y_Cake t1_izqsqn5 wrote

Replying to Awesomest_Possumest (#902,810)

This is great, a lot more like the ones my family (and really the whole city i grew up in) makes. I didn't know they had a different name as, kind of oddly, we call them tie plates so when i learned about pizzelle i assumed they were the same. The tie plate name may have something to do with the presses coming from steel ties of the steel plant in the town...or something.

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Awesomest_Possumest t1_izqx11w wrote

Replying to Oryx_y_Cake (#904,536)

Oh interesting! I updated my comment with the recipe if you want to try. We called ours pizzelles out whole lives, but it wasn't until I had a friend who knew what they are taste them and went, ok yours taste totally different than mine, and I like them better, that I realized we'd been making a different cookie (mom had typed up the recipe for me so I hadn't seen it in the book in awhile). I like pizzelles too, but they're more cake-y than this recipe makes.

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Ancguy t1_izr9mhu wrote

Replying to tagehring (#903,781)

I have one of those and used it for years to make pizzelles "Just like grandma and mom used to." My sisters both bought electric ones and I shamed them for defying family tradition. Then I got an electric one too and have never looked back - they're fucking awesome!

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megispj89 t1_izsvfha wrote

Replying to nerdallica (#904,346)

Same, I can even taste it, even though I haven’t had one since she died. Oh they were so light and airy you’d end up housing like 90 before a second thought

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Dizzy_Ad_7622 t1_izxaphw wrote

Replying to Faeglantina (#903,642)

Oh, no. Sorry, by 'dispose' I meant possibly decommission. As I see it is quite valuable to you. I have heard many stories and lore of such traditions whereby a grandma passes down their deluxe pizza maker. As for the comment about the smell, its something that should be preserved if you will. Much like the smell of a book in its prime =)

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