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Post date: Aug 12, 2014 11:17:06 PM
30 January 1966
Below you can see a recipe for good cookies. They are best when the nuts are finely ground.
We are having Spring weather, but everyone knows that it won’t last. I don’t find the snow and cold so terrible, but the snow hasn’t yet been a foot deep and the wind doesn’t blow much.
My hiking group on the North Sea
Yes, I’m getting exercise: in the factory we work and on weekends I go hiking with a group of kids. The hiking is much different than that in California—more like what I’ve heard of the Northeast. Speaking (or rather writing) of the East: if I pick up my car in New York I will save $100 on shipping and $150 on air fare. With $250 I can see a good part of the States in three or four weeks. Or, failing that, I could drive through the Canadian Rockies which I have never seen. If I can stand the heat in Africa I can certainly put up with the US for a few days.
Wonderful and different cookies: [see also this recipe]
Nürnberger Elisenlebkuchen
Makes about 40. You will need 40 eucharistic wafers (oblates) to put under.
Icing: (Light) 3 oz powdered sugar, 1-2 tablespoons hot water. For dark add 1/2 oz cocoa.
Beat eggs and add sugar and vanilla. Beat until thick and creamy (15 minutes!). Add spices and finely diced orange peel. Grind almonds with skins, mix with packing powder, and add to eggs and sugar. Stir in enough ground hazelnuts so the dough is still spreadable. Onto every oblate (wafer) put a heaping teaspoonful of dough, spread with wet knife into a hill and put on cookie sheet. Bake at 265-300° F ffor 25-35 minutes.
Icing: add enough hot water to sifted sugar (and cocoa) so that a thick-flowing mass results. immediately after baking spread half of the cookies with dark, half with light icing.
Eat.
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