Recipe - Pfeffernuesse: [Pepper Nuts Or Ginger-Bread Nuts]

1 pound Sugar
1 pound Flour
One fourth pound Citron
One fourth pound Almonds
4 Eggs
1 teaspoon Each cinnamon, cloves and
nutmeg [ground]
Grated rind of 1 lemon
One half teaspoon Hartshorn crystals [avail.
at drugstores]

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@theriver.com on Mar 06, 1997.