Cannoli Della Zia Emiglia

• Shells:
• 1/2 Kg flour
• 50 grams sugar
• 50- 70 grams lard
• red wine, or Marsala
• red wine vinegar
• Crisco for frying
• Filling:
• 2 lb. ricotta
• 600 grams sugar
• 1-2 tsp. vanilla
• mini chocolate chips
• maraschino cherries
• powder sugar for sprinkling on top

1. Mix flour and sugar together. Cut the lard in as you would pie crust. Make a hole in the flour, and add 1/2 glass of wine, and 1/2 glass vinegar a little at a time, working into dough. Work the dough, it should get hard. (refrigerate to let rest)
2. Pass through the pasta machine until #6.
3. Cut out using forms.
4. Seal around tubes using eggwhite.
5. Fry at 350 degrees till done.
6. Allow shells to cool, then stuff with the filling, add the cherries to the ends, and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/cannoli-della-zia-emiglia-51686031 (may not work)