Happy Time for Ducks

[rejectomorph]

The rain is back, and the wind with it. I enjoy a nice, blustery night. Of course, it helps that I don't have to be out in it. I can sit in my warm (except for the room Sluggo lives in) house and listen to the storm while drinking tea and munching a cookie or two. Which reminds me, it's time to buy my annual package of pfeffernuesse cookies. Or perhaps I should give Stella D'Oro a miss and make my own. I'm sure there are recipes to be found on line.

Later: While searching for a recipe, I used the Google automatic translation feature to view this German page and found its Engrish delightful. If features both "first-class prescriptions" an "mad prescriptions," as well as some questions submitted by people having difficulty with the proper preparation of featured dishes. My favorite; "assitance my roast does not succeed to me which is I to do?" A desperate cry for help, if ever I've heard one.

But I grew weary of searching through sites trying to find a pfeffernuesse recipe that looked as though it would produce something similar to the commercial cookies with which I have long associated the season. So, Stella D'Oro it will be.

Comments

[shane.livejournal.com]

Allrecipes (http://www.allrecipes.com/) is your saviour.

[rejectomorph]

There are a lot of cookies at that site! I went through seven or eight pages of peanut butter cookie recipes alone before I got to the pfeffernuesse (seven recipes for them.) But the weirdiest thing I saw was Peppermint Ammonia Cookies! Ammonia? I had no idea there was such a thing as baker's ammonia, but apparently there is. I'm tempted to try making them (if I can even find any baker's ammonia) just to see what they're like, even though I'm not that fond of peppermint. Also, I'd love to see people's reaction when I hold out a plate full of them and say "Would you like some Peppermint Ammonia cookies?"

dr hasenpfeffer distributed the recipe

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

1 lb sugar
1 lb flour
1/4 lb citron
1/4 lb almonds
4 eggs
1 tsp each cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg [ground]
Grated rind of 1 lemon
1/2 tsp 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.

Re: dr hasenpfeffer distributed the recipe

[rejectomorph]

Mmm, they sound good. But can I trust a recipe from Dr. Hasenpfeffer? Given his past behavior, might there not be some ingredients in the recipe which combine in some way to produce a dangerous mind-clouding drug, for example, which would blind those who eat the cookies to the evils of certain research scientists?