Pfeffernuesse: [pepper nuts or ginger-bread nuts]

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 pounds Sugar
1 pounds Flour
¼ pounds Citron
¼ pounds Almonds
4 Eggs
1 teaspoon Each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg [ground]
Grated rind of 1 lemon
½ teaspoon Hartshorn crystals [avail. at drugstores]

Directions

Beat together the eggs and sugar until light. Sift together the dry ingredients and add the hartshorn crystals which have been crushed well.

Let dough stand overnight. Next day, form balls the size of a large walnut.

Make a thin mixture of powdered sugar and milk and brush it on the cookies . Flatten them slightly, bake at 300 F until brown, possibly 20 minutes.

Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by KaylaD <azheat@...> on Mar 06, 1997.

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