jake wrote:

> zxcvbob wrote:
>
>> 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
>
>
> I don't think so. Pfeffernüsse are very small rounds.


You're probably right. I was keying off the "hard as a rock and don't
soften" part, plus the anise.

Bob