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[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Sandy requested a recipe for my peppernuts and here it is. I think the recipe has been in the family for generations, and according to mum it is my great-grandmother`s.

125 grams (dark) syrup
125 grams sugar
3 table spoons of cream
30 grams butter
¼ teaspoon aniseseed (which gives a liquorice-like flavour)
¼ teaspoon pepper

Mix all of this in a pan and melt it while mix everything together. It shall not boil, but there is no disaster done if so happens. Add:

250 grams flour mixed with
¼ teaspoon baking powder.

Mix everything together. The dough should end up smooth and slick. If it is crumbly try add a mixture of more cream/butter.

Because the batter stiffens up and is hard to work if it stays in the pan, I usually pour it out on a dinner plate or some such and spread it a little. It is best to work with when slightly warm still. Make little balls, not bigger than a mouthful. Depending on the size you make them one batch should give about 60 nuts.

Bake in oven for 10-12 minutes on 180 C.

Caution. The nuts can be very hard, but soften them up in your mouth before chewing on them.

Comments

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've never cooked with anise before. But these are wonderful! I can't wait to try them for myself.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Good luck then! I`m making reindeer stew tonight but I think that is a tad to Scandinavian for the ingredients to be available across the world, lol.

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

You're probably right about Reindeer stew being very Scandinavian, but is it just the meat? Could a different meat be substituted? I love stew. And I've cooked with other deer (whitetail, mule deer, moose, elk, etc.). ^_^

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Yes I suppose you could use other kinds of deer. And I suppose you can skip the very Norwegian ingredients as brown goat cheese (it needs to be the brown one because you need that caramel-y taste I don`t think you can get from the white goat cheese.)

It`s fairly easy: Fry meat, with onions and mushrooms. Add spices like salt, pepper and juniper berries (crushed). Make sauce of 4 decilitres water/500 grams meat (you need 200-300 grams meat per person), add a thickening based on 4 tablespoons flour and water/500 grams meat and add 5 slices goat cheese/500 grams meat. Cook for about 15 minutes. Just before serving add some sour cream. I prefer eating it with rice, ubt boiled potatoes is also common. We also use a jam out of something my dictionary give so many names but lingonberry or partridgeberry is two of them to add that little sour taste to the round taste of the sauce.

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

That cheese would be a problem... but the recipe sounds heavenly. Yum!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Peppernuts! Yum!

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

Indeed. :)

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this, I wanted to ask you the recipe after tasting them, but I don't need to anymore, lol. They are so different from the Dutch peppernuts. I thought they were pretty similar when we talked about it :)