Zeppole and Biscotti (1946)

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   OED has 1976 for "zeppole."
   From the NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, 19 September 1946, pg. 23, col. 7:

   ITALIAN SWEET NOTES--If you should happen to visit the Transatlantic Shop cross the block to 922 Second Avenue at Forty-ninth Street and treat yourself to something good from the cases of the La Piemonte Pastry Shop.  G. Alias, baker and owner, was a former pastry chef at the Lafayette and Belmont hotels.  He tells you he bakes French-Italian, but his sweets speak with a marked Italian accent.  Saturday, he tells us, he will have the Zeppole Sfinge, a cake baked only for St. Joseph's day.  Mr. Alias' granddaughter, a (Col. 8--ed.) pretty young thing, maybe sixteen, told us that the chocolate fudge cake was away up on her list.  And the brownies!  But for something strictly Italian, we would advise the Cannoli, these at 15 cents apiece.  You can buy Italian breadsticks, butter blessed, or those made of water.  Biscotti for sale, two kinds--the anise and nut.