Old-Fashioned Crispy Spice Cookies

Name: Old-Fashioned Crispy Spice Cookies
Ingredients: 1 pound + 4 tablespoons (500 g) butter; 2½ cups (550 g) granulated sugar; 1 tablespoon (7 g) ground cloves; 3½ tablespoons (25 g) ground cinnamon; ½ cup + 2 tablespoons (250 g) dark corn syrup; ¼ pound (125 g) almonds, coarsely chopped; Rind of 1 organic orange; 6⅓ cups (800 g) all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon (15 g) potash dissolved in a little water; 1 tablespoon (15 g) potash dissolved in a little water

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mouthfeel

By Ole Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk

Published 2017

About

This recipe has been used by Ole’s mother for almost six decades. Seemingly, it was published in a newspaper column by Lise Nørgaard and Mogens Brandt in the 1950s. They wrote that the recipe must be followed to the letter to bake the world’s best crispy spice cookies.

Ingredients

1 pound + 4 tablespoons (500 g) butter
2½

Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Mix the butter, 2¼ cups (500 g) of the sugar, and the syrup in a pot and heat the mixture until has melted together and is about to boil.
Stir the almonds, cloves, cinnamon, and potash into the mixture and allow it to cool to lukewarm.
Chop the orange rind into coarse pieces and bring it to a boil together with the remaining ¼ cup (50 g) of sugar and a