how do i get a recipe and history for an italian pastry named
"chaimbella" or "chimella". it is usually made at holidays like
christmas and easter in rome and made with a short dough named, "pasta
frolla".

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 11 Jan 2005 21:35 PST

Could it be 'ciambella'?

http://www.italianmade.com/recipes/recipe374.cfm

http://italianfood.about.com/od/cakespies/r/blr0661.htm

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Clarification of Question by rockyrock-ga on 12 Jan 2005 11:43 PST

yep, could be ciamella, has anise in it.
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Hi Rockyrock and Pink (mio speciale amica),

With my vast and comprehensive knowledge of about 17 Italian words, I
figured that your spelling was indeed wrong. "Chaimbella" don't look
right and appears more French than Italian. "Chiambella" sounds far
more Italian. Yup, it's a pastry alright. "Chimella" seems to relate
to rings and/or bells.

Also ..

http://www.gennarino.org/frolla.htm .. re your pastry base.

Ciao,

Phillipo

it could be ciamella, truth is i dont know, it has anise in it though

Hi rockyrock, They are called ciambelle in italian and every region
has a different variation in the name or the recipe.  the ones with
anise are typical of ciociaria an area in lazio south of Rome, you can
find one recipe in the following website: www.supino.ca ,click on
recipes.
Hope this helps, and so much for goggle carefully selected expert researchers.

>> so much for goggle carefully selected expert researchers

Please note that I suggested "ciambella" to the customer fourteen
minutes after the question was posted, but the response was "could be
ciamella." I found no useful references to "ciamella." If the customer
had requested more information about ciambella, I would have provided
it.

Your suggestion of "ciambelle" is substantially the same thing as
"ciambella." The words are virtually interchangeable:

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ciambelle+ciambella

While commenters are free to say practically anything they please
without repercussion, Google Answers Researchers are expected to
refrain from posting an answer unless they can offer the customer
precisely what he or she is seeking. Since I was not able to ascertain
whether ciambella was or was not a suitable response, I did not post
an answer, and the customer's account was not billed for the research
fee.

Excuse my error: I posted "ciambella" as a suggestion thirteen minutes
after the question was posted, not fourteen minutes.

Hi Boboti,

Might you have made comment if there were no attempts to help at all?
Even so, as you pointed out ".. every region has a different variation
in the name or the recipe .."

It's ad hoc questions, answers and even comments as you would be
aware. No one is compelled to answer. It's a choice.

Some are here to help. As you have done a perfect job in answering,
are you considering an application as researcher?

Phil