Looking for name of German Christmas cookie
RobtE wrote:
> I had a collection of aunts that made Bertie Wooster's look like a
> vicar's tea party. Every year about this time Great-Aunt Myrtle would
> descend upon us with a batch of her annual baking. We could conclude
> only that she was intent on wiping out the rest of the family so that
> her daughers could inherit /everything/. Her German Christmas cookies
> were like concrete. Honest, if George W decided to drop these things on
> Iraq the war would be over in a matter of days. The only way you could
> even bite through her cookies was to plunge them into your coffee and
> leave them there until the coffee had gone cold.
>
> Rumour had it that she had a special rolling pin that shaped her cookies
> into their traditional rectangles, with their raised shapes of knights
> and damsels. She apparently made these WMDs in the autumn and then
> intentionally left them to go stale and hard.
>
> Yes, I know Google is my friend, and I've no problems Googling for a
> recipe, but I need a name for these things to Google on. Anyone have any
> ideas? As I remember them, they were vaguely anise-seed flavoured, if
> that helps any.
>
> RobtE
Pfeffernuisse.
Best regards,
Bob
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