½ cup sugar
½ cup maple syrup or corn syrup
½ cup butter
½ Tbsp vinegar
1 egg
1 tsp ground black pepper
½ tsp ground allspice
½ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp baking soda
2 ½ cups flour
Cook the sugar, maple/corn syrup, butter and vinegar in a pot over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the butter is melted and it boils. Pour into a bowl and chill down to room temperature. Beat in all the other ingredients. It will make a smooth paste.
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and freeze for 20 minutes or chill longer. It rolls out much easier when it is hard/cold.
Preheat oven to 350° F, and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper.
On a floured surface, roll the dough to about ¼” thick, then cut out shapes. Place them in the baking sheet with about 1” in between, because they do expand a little.
Bake for 7 minutes. (If they are thicker, or the pan is too crowded, they will require a few more minutes.) They should be slightly golden brown around the edges and look puffed up. Let them repose on the baking sheet until they are relaxed and more cool, then transfer cookies to a cooling rack. They should be thin and hard enough to snap, but slightly chewy when eating.
Makes about 36 cookies.
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4 eggs
½ cup flour
½ cup milk or orange juice
2 Tbsp butter
Preheat oven to 425° F. Put the butter in a cake pan (8”×8” for a thick pancake, bigger for a thinner one) and put in the oven to melt.
Beat eggs until light. Add flour and milk and mix until smooth.
Pour the batter into the cake pan with the melted butter, and bake for 20-25 min. until brown.
Serve immediately. Top with what you prefer, such as maple syrup, powdered sugar, jelly/jam, warm applesauce with cinnamon, any kind of fruit topping, whipped cream, etc.
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+ Pear & Rosemary
2 cups flour
½ tsp salt
¼ cup butter
¾ cup apple, grated or finely chopped
3 Tbsp honey
1 cup sour cream
1 egg
1 tsp baking powder
cinnamon and sugar
Preheat oven to 400° F.
Stir together flour, salt, and baking powder. Cut in butter until crumbly and there's no more dry powder. Stir in apple, honey, sour cream and egg until combined.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, or grease the sheet. Use a dough scoop to make round, small scones. Gently press down the tops of each scone to make them flat. Sprinkle the tops with cinnamon sugar.
Bake in preheated oven for 12 to 14 minutes until the bottoms of the scones are light brown.
Remove from oven, cool slightly on the sheet pan and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Variation:
Use pears instead of apples, add ¼ tsp dried rosemary to dough, and exclude the cinnamon sugar.
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2 tsp yeast
2 tsp sugar, brown sugar, honey, molasses, or maple syrup
1 cup warm water
1 cup warm milk or nut milk
4 Tbsp butter
1 ½ cups rolled oats
¾ cup chopped nuts (optional)
3 tsp salt
3 cups flour
In a large bowl, combine yeast, sugar, and warm water.
When the yeast becomes foamy, stir in the warm milk and butter. Stir in the oats, then the nuts if using, then the salt. Stir in the flour one cup at a time.
Knead the dough, using more flour as necessary, until the dough is relatively smooth, not sticky, and resistant. Coat the dough with oil, place in a large oiled bowl, and cover it with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place for 30-40 minutes.
Knead the dough gently and form into a smooth loaf. Place in a bread pan. Coat the top of the dough with oil and cover loosely with plastic wrap. Let rise for 30-40 minutes. Preheat oven to 350° F. Bake for 1 hour.
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Old favorite from an Amish cooking book.
Snitz:
1 ham hock
1.5 cups dried apples (or chopped fresh apples if you don't have the former)
2 Tbsp brown sugar
Place ham hock in heavy saucepan. Cover with 2 quarts water and boil 2 hours. Add apples and brown sugar. Add an additional 1.5 quarts water and cook until apples are soft. Add knepp.
Knepp:
2 cups flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
2 Tbsp melted butter
1/3-½ cup milk
Mix flour, baking powder, and salt. Add beaten egg, butter, and milk. Use only enough milk to make a sticky dough that will drop easily off a spoon. Drop by spoonfuls into boiling ham and apple mixture. Cover tightly and boil for 15 minutes.
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