Pfeffernusse Cookies
by Dee McLain
(Boise, ID)
I am looking for a Pfeffernusse cookie recipe my mother used to make when I was a kid. She always mixed it in a big kettle on the stove by hand with a wooden spoon because it was so stiff it would either bend a metal spoon or break plastic ones.
It called for 4 cups melted honey, ground cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg. Because the ingredient measurements were so large in the recipe, it started out using 10 cups of flour to mix with the liquid ingredients. There were no eggs in the mix.
You baked the Pfeffernusse cookies on a cookie sheet as a small flat ball with a piece of walnut in the middle. They were soft immediately out of the oven but after cooling, you either had to dunk them in coffee to soften them for eating, or let them age in the cookie tin for 2-3 months so the honey in them would soften, not that the kids ever let them alone that long.
I hope someone can find the recipe. Thanks for the help.
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