Sweet Ricotta Cannoli – We Love God!

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together. What comfort and encouragement this should be to us. If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe that just as certainly as God will allow nothing to subvert His glory, so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

Jerry Bridges

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1	lb	Siftit flour
1/4	t	Cinnamon
1	T	Powdered instant coffee
		Grated rind of half lemon
2	oz	Sugar
1		Egg slightly beaten
1		Egg yolk slightly beaten
2	T	Cooking oil
1/2	c	about sautern wine or
		other semi sweet wine
		Additional 2 yolks, slightly
		beaten
		Fat for deep frying
1 1/2	lb	Ricotta
4	oz	Icing sugar
4	oz	Drinking choclate
4	oz	Glazed sherries
4	oz	Toasted almonds [chopped]

INSTRUCTIONS

Dough-- mix and sift flour, cinnamon, and coffee into a bowl. Stir in
lemon rind, sugar, egg and egg yolk and oil. Mix with hand adding  just
enough wine to hold ingredients together to form a dough. turn  out on
a floured board, and kneed until smooth and elastic about 10  minutes.
Chill dough several hours. Cut off pieces of dough and roll  out
thinly. Cut out a rectangles about 3 1/2 inch by 5 inches and  wrap
round a cannoli tube [ a metal tube about 1 inch diam. and about  4-5
inches long] Seal edges by brushing with remain egg yolks. Fry  two or
three at a time by dropping wrapped tube into deep hot fat .  until
lightly brown, about one minute. Drain on absorbent paper: let  cool
slightly then push mould out from one end.  Prepare the filling by
beating the ricotta untill very smooth and then  sprinkle the drinking
choclate and icing sugar and mix well. Mix the  other ingredients
reserving some of the chopped almonds. Just before  serving fill
cannoli with the ricotta filling and dip ends in roasted  chopped
almond . Makes about 30 cannoli.  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest  by
acam@orbit.net.mt on Feb 24, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 2280 Calories From Fat: 1338 Total Fat: 154.6g Cholesterol: 757.1mg Sodium: 943.1mg Potassium: 1923.4mg Carbohydrates: 123g Fiber: 12.9g Sugar: 66.2g Protein: 113.5g

Prayerful waiting on God is indispensable to effective service. Like the time-out in a football game, it enables us to catch our breath and fix new strategy. As we wait for directions, the Lord frees us from the tyranny of the urgent. He shows us the truth about Himself, ourselves, and our tasks. He impresses on our minds the assignments He want us to undertake. The need itself is not the call; the call must come from the God who knows our limitation. 'The Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust' (Psalm 103:13-14). It is not God who loads us until we bend or crack with an ulcer, nervous breakdown, heart attack, or stroke. These come from our inner compulsions coupled with the pressure of circumstances.

Charles Hummel