Thanks everyone for the help, I'm actually trying this today. If I remember right my grandmother did use yeast for this recipe but indeed it was cube yeast not powder. I don't remember bran being used but I do vaguely remember Crisco shortening.

Merry Christmas to all !

John

I recently found one of my grandmother's recipes for Scripelle Frite (dated 1972!), which is different from the more common scripelle in brodo. I'd like to give it a try but I can't translate some of the words. Maybe someone here could help? Here's the recipe:

3 Piate di farina (Three cups of flour ...