Cookies

I remember these all too well, since it was my little fingers that were used to grease every one of those little buggers!  I have been promised to receive the molds of these when mom gives up cooking (never :-) as well as the Muskazonen one.  I remember them in all different shapes, very deep with zig zag ridges all around and you had to make sure the grease got in every groove. [Eve Brown]

 
   
 

 
 

Nüsspussel

Posted by: Alex Leeb
30 Nov 2006

  • 2 egg

  • 75 g (.326 cup). sugar

  • 2 tablespoons lukewarm water

  • 75 g (.326 cup). grounded nuts

  • 100 g (.435 cup) flour

  • 125 ml (.528 cup) cream

Beat eggs until a creamy yellow with sugar. Add remaining ingredients; flour, nuts, cream and lukewarm water.  Make into crescents (like a quarter moon ) place a on greased pan.

 

 
 
Reisscheijweri

Posted by: Sylvia Weimar
Bad Rappenau, GER
04 Mar 2007

Comment: In a peaceful and quiet moment I remembered a very popular sweet dish with rice;
it is a kind of porridge.

  • Milk

  • Sugar

  • Milk Rice

  • Egg Yolks

  • Butter

  • Egg Whites

After boiling the rice grains, make a mixture of egg yolks, sugar and butter.  Pour the porridge into it.  Beat the egg whites with sugar until stiff; fold into the mixture.  Bake in a baking tin until crispy brown.  

We served it with preserved cherries or apples.
 

 
 
Gangene Zuckerkichl (Yeast Sugar Cookies)

Submitted by: Thomas Willand
05 Mar 2007

Good appetite!

©www.thomaswilland.de & www.dvhh.org
Translation by Rose Mary Keller Hughes

Dough:

  • 500g (abut 2 cups) Flour

  • 250g (about 1 cup) Margarine, melted

  • 2 Egg yolks

  • 1 Egg white

  • ¾ Pack cake Yeast, crumbled

  • Some Warm Milk (for the Yeast)

  • 4 teaspoons Sugar (for the Yeast)

Filling:

  • 250g (about 1 cup) Ground walnuts

  • 250g (about 1 cup) Sugar

  • Jam, according to your taste (in this recipe, we used strawberry)

Click images to enlarge

  Preparation:
Measure the flour into a large bowl and make a well in the center. Add the crumbled yeast and the 4 teaspoons of sugar. Add warm milk and let the yeast work. As soon as the yeast has worked, add the 2 egg yolks and 1 egg
white.
     

  Add the melted margarine to the dough. Knead the dough, until it is shiny.  Let the dough rise.
     

  Divide the dough into 3 parts. Let the dough rise again.
     

  Meanwhile, prepare the filling. Thoroughly mix the sugar and the walnuts together.
     

  Roll out the first part of the three pieces of dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
     

  Next coat the dough with jam (not too thin a layer).
     

  Spread half of the sugar-walnut-mix on top of the jam.
     

  Roll out the second piece of the dough.
     

  Place it over the layers already prepared.
     

  Coat this layer first with the jam and then spread the second half of the sugar-walnut mixture.
     

  Roll out the last piece of dough and place it over the layers on the baking sheet.
     

  Place the baking sheet in the oven at 160°C (320-350° F), center rack, for 30 minutes. When the cake is cooled, remove the parchment paper...
     

  ...and coat the cake with chocolate icing.
     

  As soon as the chocolate icing is cold and set, cut the cake in square pieces (about 5x5 cm or 2x2”)

Important Note:

It is necessary to find the right amount of jam! Every jam is different. If you use too much, the filling will be runny and will ooze out when you cut the Zuckerkichl into small squares.

If you use too little jam, the filling will be too dry and the sugar, jam and walnuts will not combine properly resulting in the sugar being grainy.  There are some jams that are especially good for this recipe: apricot, strawberry & mirabelle. (a kind of plum). The lighter jams are preferred over the dark ones such as blackberry. Raspberry can be used, but choose the seedless variety.

 

 

 
 
Pfeffernuesse Cookies

Posted by: Larry Hale

My family recipe

  • 1 cup corn syrup

  • ¾ cup sugar

  • ¼ cup milk

  • ¼ cup shortening

  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla

  • ¼ teaspoon lemon

  • 1/8 teaspoon anise oil

  • 1 ¾ cups flour

  • ½ teaspoon baking powder

  • ½ teaspoon nutmeg

  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon

  • dash ground cloves

  • ¼ teaspoon allspice

Directions

  • Boil syrup, then cool

  • Bring sugar and milk to a boil and then cool

  • Mix together shortening, vanilla, lemon and anise oil

  • To this, add flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, ground cloves and allspice

  • Add this to the cooled mixture of syrup and sugar

  • Mix well - dough will be stiff

  • Refrigerate until cold

  • Shape into small balls

Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.

 
 

 

 
 
Nusse Stangle (spl) or Nut Sticks

Posted by: Helen Reiner

 

  • 3/4 lb. powdered sugar

  • 3/4 lb. nut meats

  • 2 egg whites, unbeaten

Grind nuts very fine, add sugar and egg whites.  Mix and then roll out on floured board to l inch thickness. Then frost

Frosting:

  • l/2 c. powdered sugar

  • l Tablespoon lemon juice

  • 2 egg whites, unbeaten

  • Put these ingredients in a bowl and beat until very stiff

  • Spread this over the dough and cut into strips

  • Place on a greased cookie sheet

Bake at 300 degrees for 25 minutes.

 

 

 
 
My Mother’s Cookies - Nuts & Meringue

Posted by: Eve Brown

My sister tried to make one of my mom's cookies from the recipe we got from her.  The name of it means something like stems.  It is nut-based cut in logs covered with meringue.  This is what we think the recipe is—but my sister says they didn't come out right and thinks something is missing.

  • 1½ lbs. ground nuts (fine)

  • 4 egg whites

  • ½ - 1 lb. powdered sugar

Beat egg whites until start to be stiff add powdered sugar according to your taste (between ½ and 1 lb.)  Beat till very stiff (not runny).

Mix ½ of the egg white mix into the groundnuts.

Cover cutting surface with breadcrumbs, and then put nut mix on top and roll evenly into rectangle shape about finger thick.  Cut in half, lengthwise.  Top this with egg and sugar mix and spread evenly.  Slice width wise into sticks (finger width).  Using a spatula put onto a greased (could spray with cooking spray) cookie sheet.

Bake for 5– 0 minutes at 350˚

 

   
 

Photo of Beth's Grandmothers wooden cookie press, the fish and doll (baby Jesus) cookie cutters for Linzerteig
 

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