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Ocean Isle Beach biscotti

(This is a variant of the earthy-crunchy biscotti recipe I developed several years ago. Why am I posting it, you might ask? Well, I forgot to bring my recipe book along for this holiday, and had to find my basic biscotti recipe by looking it up via g**gl*. So I'll post this one to the web as well, and that way it will live forever.)

Ocean Isle Beach biscotti

  1. Start heating the oven to 350°F.
  2. Mix
    • Two eggs
    • One egg white
  3. Stir in
    • 1.5 teaspoon orange extract
    • ~1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper.
    • 1 cup sugar
  4. Sift in
    • 2 cups all-purpose white flour
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1/4th teaspoon salt
  5. After mixing all of this into a sticky doughball, mix in
    • Somewhere in the ballpark of 1/2 cup pecans (this is the South we're talking about, after all)
    • Somewhere in the ballpark of 1/2 cup finely chopped candied ginger
    • Somewhere in the ballpark of 1/3rd cup raisins
  6. Grease a cookie sheet
  7. Form the dough into a 3 inch diameter cylinder
  8. Put the dough on the cookie sheet, then flatten it down to about 1 inch high
  9. Cook it for ~35 minutes
  10. Let cool (on a cooling rack) for 15 minutes
  11. Cut into thin slices
  12. set the slices back on the cookie sheet, then place them back into the oven for 15-20 minutes at 325°F.
  13. Set the finished biscotti on the cooling rack to cool, provided your friends and relations leave them alone long enough for you to get them over to the cooling rack.