German Christmas Cookies
Ingredients:
2 cups brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbs. hot water
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds - Grind nuts fine.)
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground nutmeg
3 cups sifted all-purpose flour.
1 cup powdered sugar (for rolling cookies in)
Cooking:
- Mix the sugar with the well-beaten eggs.
- Add the soda dissolved in hot water, the nuts and sift in the spices with the flour.
- Add more flour if needed to make dough stiff enough to roll.
- Roll out until the dough is about 1/8 inch thick.
- Cut into tiny rounds about as large as a quarter of a dollar and bake in oven at 400° F until golden brown.
- Take out and roll at once in powdered sugar.
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