Recipe - Pfeffernusse Cookies

3 tablespoon Lemon juice
One half cup Citron or other candied
fruit or fruit peel,
chopped
6 cup Cake flour
2 teaspoon Baking powder
One half teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Cloves
One half teaspoon Nutmeg
One half teaspoon Mace
1 tablespoon Cinnamon
One half cup Chopped nuts

Grated rind of 1 lemon

Beat the eggs well. Add sugar about two tablespoons at a time and beat
thoroughly with each addition.

Add lemon rind and juice, finely chopped citron, the dry ingredients which
have been mixed and sifted together, and the finely chopped nuts.

Chill at least one hour, roll out One half inch thick and cut out with a
Pfeffernusse cutter, a round cutter about 7/8 of an inch in diameter. ( If
a Pfeffernusse cutter is not available, a narrow bottle top or round tin
bouillon cube box will do very nicely. )

Place Pfeffernusse on a cookie sheet and let stand overnight in a cool
place to dry. The next morning before baking invert each cookie and put a
drop of fruit juice or brandy on the moist spot on the bottom of the cookie
and bake upside down. This tends to make the Pfeffernusse "pop."

Bake in a slow oven (300 degrees F.) for 8 minutes. Makes 180200 cookies.
Let ripen and soften before using.

From the Wed 06171992 edition of The El Paso Times newspaper. Posted by
John P. Nicholson

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