suemunzlinger's Recipe

German Christmas cookie

Category: cookies

2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbs. hot water
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds) ground fine
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour.
1 cup powdered sugar (for rolling cookies in)
Directions:


Mix the sugar with the well-beaten eggs.
Add the soda dissolved in hot water,
the nuts and sift in the spices with the flour.
Add more flour if needed to make a dough stiff enough to roll.
Roll out until the dough is about 1/8 inch thick. Cut into tiny rounds about as large as a quarter of a dollar and bake in oven at 400 F until golden brown. Take out and roll at once in powdered sugar.