I grew up watching my mother, Helen Dowling, make the recipe from her mother, Julia Krallman. Her version of this German spiced cookie was part of our holiday cookie collection every year. I believe the original is made into individual cookies, but this big-batch method of baking in rimmed cookie sheets is very user-friendly. My mother’s family didn’t care for candied citron, but I like certain types (not the artificially dyed stuff) and include some in my
