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Up for the day at 5am, as usual of late, with turbo-two-year-old. I was tired, he was energetic, Casper was whiny, mr. flea and I were bickering about measuring windows and thinking about desks.

We pulled it together and went to the "bring one for the chipper" Xmas tree recycling event at Casper's school, for which I was volunteering. The woman soliciting volunteers seems nice, and she's a master gardener, so I thought it would be a good social step. Indeed, it was pleasant to collect trees (about 75 in 4 hours) and chat in between with the other volunteers, most of whom I had at least met. And lo and behold, this afternoon I was invited to a monthly "girls' night out" including a lot of the parents of Casper's schoolmates.

Dillo *actually took a nap* this afternoon, so I VACUUMED!!! So necessary. And mr. flea did Quicken, and then Casper helped me make the spitzbuben, and Dillo woke up and I took him outside to play on the neighbor's new plat set while Casper helped mr. flea prep the (New Year's Eve, whoops) pork roast. And now it smells nummy, and tomorrow we are going to Ikea and maybe we will even sort out the desk issue.

Spitzbuben

Dec. 18th, 2008 11:13 am
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Last December my friend Marian brought these to book club. They are wonderful and so very addictive. I have a special sweet tooth for baked goods with ground almonds in them. At the time Marian said the recipe was a family secret, but she has now decided to share! I'm hoping to make them this weekend.

The cookies I had were 1.5 inch round sandwich cookies, with the tops and bottoms coated in powdered sugar, and raspberry preserves between the layers.

Nonna's Spitzbuben -- translated by AnnaGram

Spitzbuben

2 1/4 sticks butter
7/8 cup sugar
5 oz. almonds (not blanched), finely ground
1 Tbs. pure vanilla extract
3 1/2 cups flour (or less - need to adjust)
Raspberry preserves (or part chocolate frosting)

Mix ingredients - butter,sugar, vanilla, almonds, then flour. Roll out on a board, make small round shapes, bake until light yellow in moderate oven (375o or less?) for 8 -15 minutes (depends hugely on kind of cookie sheet and oven temp!)

While still warm, dip tops into sugar, and spread flat bottom with jam or chocolate (even both!) and lay another cookie on top.

(These ingredients are translated from German pounds. If you have a gram scale, and keep in mind that 500 grams = 1 German pound, the quantities are:

1/2 lb. butter
200 gr. sugar
1/4 lb. almonds
1/2 stick of vanilla
420 gr. flour - but I use 390 or less)
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Contrary to my mother's assumption, these don't have lard.

Molasses Ginger Crinkles
Mix together: Sift and add:

2 2/3 cup canola oil 10 cups flour
4 eggs 4 tsp. cinnamon
4 cups sugar 3 tbsp. baking soda
1 cup molasses 3 tbsp. ginger
¼ cup black strap molasses


Scoop cookies and roll in sugar. Bake for 10 minutes at 325˚. Make about 12 dozen medium cookies.

Haven't made them yet, but I'm thinking about doing it right now, if I have enough ingredients...

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