German Christmas Cookies
Instructions:
- 2 cups brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 Tbs. hot water
- 1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts or almonds), finely ground
- 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp. ground nutmeg
- 3 cups sifted all−purpose flour.
- 1 cup powdered sugar (for rolling cookies in)
- 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 a 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.