Thus armed, tackling the recipe itself an elemental combination of confectioner's sugar, flour, eggs and anise oil is easy. (You may have most of the ingredients on hand already.) For leavening, purists prefer a pinch of hartshorn (aka baker's ammonia), which is traditional in Scandinavian baking and thought to produce a tender, fluffier crumb but conventional baking powder more than suffices.

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You want the olive oil to seep all the way into the bread's center, so every crumb turns a deep golden brown, but no darker.

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