zxcvbob wrote:

> 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

You may have noticed I just corrected a different mistake of my own