stark wrote:
> Anyone have an "authentic" pfeffernusse recipe? I seem to remember a
> small oval cookie, but when I tried a JOC recipe the little balls of
> dough cooked flatter than a floogie. Not bad but before the powdered
> sugar they had a fruitcake taste; after the powdered sugar they seemed
> more sweet than spicy. Maybe what I remember wasn't pfeffernusse at
> all.

Authentic pfeffernussen are spicy little balls of cookie as hard as
rocks. Thus the name: pepper nuts.

You may be remembering cookies that were presented to you as
pfeffernussen -- it's hard to tell from your description of "oval." They
may have been pfeffernussen that somehow spread and flattened out, or
they may have been lebkuchen which are similar in taste but more short
and lighter in color (less clove involved) than pfeffernusse.

I have a pfeffernusse recipe, quite authentic. I could post it as is, in
German, or you could wait for me to translate it