Cookies

Jewish cookies

Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 500 g plain flour1 lb plain flour
  • 250 g butter9 oz butter
  • 250 g sugar9 oz sugar
  • 1 tsp hjartarsalt (baker's ammonia, ammonium carbonate; use baking powder if you can't get it)
  • 2 eggs

Method

  1. Mix the flour, sugar and hjartarsalt, rub in the butter, then knead with the eggs into a smooth dough. Chill for about an hour.
  2. Heat the oven to 200°C. Roll the dough out thinly and cut out rounds. Place on baking sheets lined with baking paper.Heat the oven to 400 °F. Roll the dough out thinly and cut out rounds. Place on baking sheets lined with baking paper.
  3. Bake at 200°C for 7–10 minutes, until pale golden.Bake at 400 °F for 7–10 minutes, until pale golden.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Gyðingakökur.
500gr. hveiti - 250gr. smjör 250gr. sykur - 1 tsk. hjartasalt 2 egg
200°c í 7-10 min.