Peppernuts

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Peppernuts Ingredients

1 c Unsalted butter, at room	1/2 ts Baking soda
1 c Light or dark brown sugar,	1 ts Freshly ground cardamom
1 lg Egg	1/2 ts Ground cinnamon
1 c Ground toasted filberts or	1/2 ts Ground cloves
2 1/2 c All-purpose flour	1/2 ts Ground allspice
1 ts Baking powder	1/2 ts Ground nutmeg

Instructions for Peppernuts

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. In the large bowl, cream the butter with the sugar using an electric mixer. Add the egg and ground nuts. In another bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder, soda, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, allspice and nutmeg. Blend the dry ingredients into the creamed mixture until a stiff dough forms. Shape the dough into a ball. (At this point, you can wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate it to develop the flavor, for up to a week). Cut off a portion of the dough at a time and roll between your hands and a lightly floured work surface to make slim, ropes about 1/2-inch thick. Place 4 or 5 ropes on an ungreased cookie sheet. Cut ropes into 1/2-inch pieces using a sharp, small knife. Separate the pieces. Bake for 8 minutes or until the cookies are lightly browned and dry. Remove from the oven; cool on the baking sheet. Yield: about 600 tiny peppernuts I like to make these spicy peppernuts in quantity so that I can serve them in baskets - like you would salted nuts or candy. They add a wonderful, spicy aroma to the air. This is based on a recipe I received many years ago from a Danish friend. Although the mere idea of baking hundreds of nut-sized cookies sounds like an enormous amount of work, Ive simplified the procedure. I just roll the dough into 1/2 inch thick strips and cut them into 1/2 inch pieces with scissors, dropping the dough bits right on an ungreased cookie sheet. I can bake a hundred or more on one baking sheet! The flavor of the peppernuts mellow and improves after being stored in an airtight tin in a cool place for 3 to 4 days. BAKERS DOZEN BEATRICE OJAKANGAS SHOW #BD1A58 Copyright, 1996, TV FOOD NETWORK, G.P., All Rights Reserved MC Format by Gail Shermeyer, 4paws@netrax.net Recipe by: BAKERS DOZEN BEATRICE OJAKANGAS SHOW #BD1A58 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #511 by 4paws@netrax.net (Shermeyer-Gail) on Mar 11, 1997

Main Ingredient: PepperCuisine: Uncategorized

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