German Peppernuts (Pfeffernusse)
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
6 dozen
ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup brown sugar
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 3 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon clove
- 1⁄2 teaspoon allspice
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1⁄4 cup honey
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Beat sugar with eggs for 15 minutes.
- Sift dry ingredients together, and stir into egg-sugar mixture.
- Mix in butter and honey and knead briefly.
- Roll dough into 1/2-inch-diameter snakes. Cut into 1/2-inch segments with floured paring knife. Arrange 1 inch apart on greased cookie sheet.
- Bake 10-15 minutes.
- Cool and store in airtight container in cool place.
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Reviews
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I’ve been looking for hard peppernuts- the kind that you have to suck on so that you don’t break your teeth. This was close. I added a bit more flour and doubled the spices. They still felt a little soft after cooling but I returned them to the cooling oven and left them overnight. They are perfect this morning. Too hard to crunch without caution. ??. Thanks
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Kate S.
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