Butter blast from the past - norwegian butter cookies
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What makes a recipe a family favourite? Why have my family baked these particular cookies at Christmas for maybe a hundred years? I think it's their simple subtlety; butter-crumbly, lightly sweet, a mystical custardy dimension from the cooked egg yolks, and a satisfying crunch from the sparkling sugar on top. These are cookies you can eat through the entire holyday season (or a full life) without getting bored. <br /> <br />My Norwegian great-grandmother passed this recipe on to her three daughters. As a child I helped my grandmother bake them so many times, and when she passed away three years ago her recipe came to me. Since then I haven’t had the heart to bake them on my own. Until last week, when I finally gave them a try. It was an emotional experience. Bringing Her Cookies back somehow makes it clear, that we will never get her back. But they also made me think about how serving these cookies to the rest of the familiy this Christmas, will be a perfect way to remember her together. <br /> <br />Baking them solo was also a bit of an eye opener: Equal amount of butter and flour! And enriched with extra egg yolks - No wonder these cookies are so good. They clearly hail from a time when you were meant to eat just one satisfying cookie not the entire jar. <br /> <br />By the way - the name is a bit of a mystery. (Gosh, I do go on, but that's what nostalgia's all about.) Why is a Norwegian cookie named after the German capital? Do you have any clues?
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