Anywho, since we're not spending Christmas with my extended family this year :( I thought I might try some of the holiday baking that my Gramma ALWAYS has made for us when we come!
I found a few recipes that had some really strange old-world ingredients so I thought I'd call Gramma for her special recipe. This is the real deal peeps!
Old Fashioned Peppernuts (Pfefferneuse)
1/2 cup butter
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp honey
1 Tbsp molasses
1 egg
1/2 tsp vanilla
4 cups flour (divided)
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp all-spice
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp star anise (not the same as anise seed ...but can be substituted if necessary)
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup sweet cream
Cream butter and sugars. Add honey, molasses, egg and vanilla. Beat well. Mix all spices with 2 cups flour. Add this to the butter/sugar mixture alternating with sweet cream. Mix well as you go.
Refridgerate several hours.
After refridgerating, take a big handful of dough. Work it with your hands to soften it up but not too soft! Roll into a thin rope and slice into 1/2 inch pieces with a sharp knife. Place pieces on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350F for 9-10 minutes.
Before putting them away - preferably while still warm, throw them in an empty ice cream bucket and add 1/2 cup or so icing sugar. Cover bucket and shake, shake, shake to coat the cookies!
Enjoy!!
PS: I linked this tasty recipe up to Donna's Saturday Night Special party at Funky Junk Interiors
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2 comments:
It's fun to find a totally new Christmas cookie recipe. I can almost smell them!
we ate those in November and early December; their Dutch name is: pepernoten. They belong to the sweets in our Sinterklaas-celebrations. I love the taste of them.
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