Recipe#27082

Title: Scandanavian Christmas Cookies

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Scandanavian Christmas Cookies
Fattigmann / Poor Man
4 egg yolks
1 whole egg
4 Tb sugar
3 Tb heavy cream
1 Tb cognac
1/2 tsp grated lemon peel
1/2 tsp cardamom
approx. 180 g/6 oz/1 1/4 cups flour
Beat egg yolks, egg and sugar light and fluffy. Beat vream stiff
and add it to egg mixture with cognac.  Add spices and flour.  The
dough should be somewhat moist.  Cover well and refrigerate over
night.
Roll dough thin and cut in diamonds. Do not give up if you find it
impossible, after a while you will manage it! Cut a lengthwise
incision in the middle of each diamond and pull (careful) one
pointed end of the cooky through the cut to give the cookies their
charachteristic shape.  Bake golden brown in deep fat or oil for
2-3 minutes.  Cool on absorbent paper.
In my home we are always two baking this: One rolling and shaping,
one baking.