[OldBaldGuy]

Originally Posted by DiggerDog

Do you have the recipes you could share with us?

You bet.

OBG’s Killer Biscotti

Pre-heat oven to 300 degrees

In medium bowl #1, sift together:
2 cups bread flour
1 teaspoon baking soda

In larger bowl #2, beat with electric mixer at high speed...
3 large eggs
7/8th cup sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon anise extract
...until thick and light colored, about 5 minutes.

On low speed, mix in dry ingredients from bowl #1 until just incorporated. By hand, add
1-1/4 cup whole almonds (or mix of whole and sliced almonds), and
2 tablespoons anise seeds.
Blend until evenly combined. The resulting dough is incredibly sticky. You’ll want to use a sturdy spatula and spoon for the next steps, but DO NOT flour your hands, the table, or the loaf as you would baking bread:

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and form the dough into a 4” x 16” flattened log, about ¾” thick.

Bake at 300 degrees until golden brown, about one hour.

Turn down oven to 275, let loaf cool for ten minutes, then, using a serrated knife or electric knife (better), cut loaf crosswise into 3/8” slices. Separate the upright slices into a herring-bone pattern (left ends of odd numbered slices supporting right ends of even-numbered slices) so almost all of each slice is exposed to air. Bake at 275 degrees an additional 25 minutes.

Cool on a wire rack. Store in airtight container for two weeks or more, if it lasts that long.