Pfeffernuesse (Cookies)
cookies
2 tablespoon butter
2 cup sugar
4 teaspoon cinnamon
2 teaspoon cloves
2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 pinch black pepper
4 eggs
3 cup flour with
2 teaspoon baking powder added
1 cup chopped pecans
Cream butter and sugar. Mix cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and pepper and add to creamed mixture. Add eggs, flour and baking powder, and pecans to mixture.
Drop cookies on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for 12 - 15 minutes.
This makes 80 large soft cookies or about 156 small cookies of harder texture.
Recipe by: Mrs. Henry J. Schmidt
Yield: 80 lg.soft