our christmas traditional pfeffernusse

Name: Our Christmas Traditional Pfeffernusse
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 25 min
Ingredients: 4 1/2 cup(s) flour sifted before measuring; 1/4 teaspoon(s) baking soda, sifted with flour; 1 1/4 teaspoon(s) each of cloves, nutmeg,; 1/4 teaspoon(s) salt; 1/3 teaspoon(s) freshly ground finely pepper; 1 3/4 teaspoon(s) freshly ground finely anise seed; 4 - extra large eggs, beaten slightly; 2 cup(s) firmly packed dark brown sugar; 1/4 teaspoon(s) cardamom; - chopped hazelnuts (optional); 1/2 - grated orange or lemon peel; 1/2 teaspoon(s) cinnamon; ## COATING; - powdered sugar; ## FOR HARD COATING; 2 - large egg whites; 1 tablespoon(s) lyle's golden syrup; 2 - cup powdered sugar, maybe a little more

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Bonnie Beck

Route 66, AZ

Updated on Oct 10, 2012

What would Christmas be without the smells of ginger, nutmeg, cinniamon, cardimon, yeast, molasses, butter, apples, oranges, lemons & anise drifting from the kitchen? I can't imagine it. It's to horrible to think about. There hasn't been a winter holiday I haven't made each of the recipes from my family. From Grandmother's rich butter cookies, Mom's gingerbread boys, rumballs, & Aunt Nora's Gingerbread Cake. Cooking started in October with the fruitcakes being stored. Then Novemeber would come & some cookies would be put in tins to store, soften & to develop their flavor and fragrance.

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prep time 30 Min

cook time 25 Min

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Ingredients

4 1/2 cups flour sifted before measuring
1/4 teaspoon baking soda, sifted with flour
1 1/4 teaspoons each of cloves, nutmeg,
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 teaspoon freshly ground finely pepper
1 3/4 teaspoons freshly ground finely anise seed
4 - extra large eggs, beaten slightly
2 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cardamom
- chopped hazelnuts (optional)
1/2 - grated orange or lemon peel
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
COATING
- powdered sugar
FOR HARD COATING
2 - large egg whites
1 tablespoon lyle's golden syrup
2 - cup powdered sugar, maybe a little more

How To Make our christmas traditional pfeffernusse

Step 1

Traditionally these are started the first week of December and stored until Christmas Eve.

Step 2

Add all dry ingredients together, except the brown sugar. Add the orange zest, eggs, chopped nuts and brown sugar to the flour mixture. Mix well with your hands.
Step 3

Roll into a long roll on a lightly flours surface. Set in icebox for a couple of houses.
Step 4

Sit down and have a nice cup of coffee, tea or hot choocolate, you deserve it. Oh, go on have a cookie too, you know you want one.
Step 5

Cut dough..form into balls, with lightly floured hands, to the size of walnuts.
Step 6

Place Pfeffernusse on a lightly greased coated cookie sheet.
Step 7

Cover balls with a flour towel and let stand till room temp.
Step 8

Oh, go on have another cup of coffee, tea, Hot Swiss Miss and a sandwich.
Step 9

Bake at 350* in a preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes.
Step 10

Place warm cookies in powered sugar to coat.
Step 11

Or let them cool on a rack. And then roll them in the frosting..set them on a rack to drip that has waxpaper underneath.
Step 12

Store in cookie tins, glass jar, or coffee cans between waxpaper. Put a right lid on and store till Christmas Eve.
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