Holidays, when I was little, meant decorating, and baking. We were fortunate to have my Grandma Bailey live with us. One of her Christmas goodies was Fattigmad bokkles pronounced (Fotamun Buckles) a Norwegian Fried Cookie. She would let me help her do everything.
Today we decided to strike up the Christmas music, pull out the baking ingredients, and try our hand at these classic Christmas Cookies.
1 square butter
1 3/4 c. sugar
7 eggs (oh my)
4 tsp. vanilla
5 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder4 tsp. cardamom
It was an adventure. I wish my grandma was around to let us know if the texture was correct. The last time I made these was probably when i was 10 with my grandma.
We mixed up the ingredients, rolled them out, like sugar cookies, and cut them into diamonds.
You then twist them into a buckle, thus the name and deep fry them for 10-12 seconds.
No picture of the frying process, it just went too fast.
The finished product, little buckles. The kids thought they were OK!? What? They should think they are the best cookie ever. They were fun to make and it did bring back a lot of memories for me. That is it though, they are my Christmas Memories and so today was for me.
I think this will become a new holiday tradition with the kids, and just maybe when they are older and have kids of their own they will want to make Norwegian Christmas cookies with them.? If not, for now, it is fulfilling a holiday tradition for me.
Childhood is a short season. ~Helen Hayes
3 comments:
I think I put on 10 pounds just reading the recipe. Seriously...deep fried cookies?
yummy...
Mmmm, this is not helping my diet. Who am I kidding... I'm not on a diet, though I should be! I'd b willing to try these cookies anytime!
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