[Sca-cooks] cannoli tubes/forms

[Susan Fox]

I wasn't even thinking in terms of frying the shells while still rolled 
around the forms.  Some Italian mommas just form the dough on a dowel 
and then put them in the hot oil.  Like here:  
http://recipes.epicurean.com/recipe/12710/cannoli.html

I'll check my more traditional books later tonight if I think of it.  I 
have GOT to get the mincemeat started.

Selene



Gretchen Beck wrote:
> I'm have tried cannoli making myself, but this site says that you can make 
> cannoli forms from broomstick handles. Also, there's a wonderful 
> description of being a kid and having to eat through the entire Italian 
> holiday meal to get to the cannoli.
>
> <http://www.kqed.org/weblog/food/2006/11/hold-pie-pass-cannoli.jsp>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> toodles, margaret
>
> --On Thursday, December 06, 2007 2:11 PM -0600 "terry l. ridder" 
> <terrylr at blauedonau.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> hello;
>>
>> i would like to experiement with homemade ricotta cheese and
>> cannoli. the homemade ricotta cheese i have a good handle on
>> , it is the cannoli tubes/forms that are the problem. i have
>> aluminum flashing that would make fine cannoli tubes, i also
>> have several 3/4 inches hardwood dowels that would also make
>> the size of cannoli i am wanting to make. the aluminum tubes
>> would take me sometime to make given my limited mobility.
>> cutting the dowels to the desired length would not take that
>> long. i would be able to use my jeweler's saw in the kitchen
>> to cut the dowels. getting someone to haul one of the large
>> beach vise / make shift anvil to make the aluminum tubes is
>> not that easy. putting a large bench vise on my parents olde
>> dinner room table just does not seem appropriate. ;-)
>>
>> would anyone on the e-mail list have tried using wood dowels
>> to form cannolis? would anyone on the e-mail list have tried
>> to make aluminum cannoli tubes/forms?
>>
>> the reason for making them is i have supplies on hand to make
>> the cannoli tubes, i am just wondering if the additional time
>> and effort to make the aluminum cannoli tubes/forms is worth it.
>>
>> --
>> terry l. ridder ><>