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Norwegian Reindeer Antlers
Hjortetakk
Preparation info
- Makes about
3 dozen
dozen - Difficulty
Easy
Appears in
Published 2001
There are variations of these Christmas cookie-fritters all over Europe, known variously as rags-and-tatters, or bits-and-pieces, or buttons-and-bows, or how’s-your-father, depending on whom you ask. You can make a simple version by frying snippets of pastry—the trimmings from a pie, perhaps—and dusting them with spiced sugar.
Ingredients
- Scant
1¼ cups 175 g 1 teaspoon
Method
- Sift the flour with the spices, and toss in the orange zest.
- Beat the butter with the sugar and work in the spiced flour, the yolks, and enough aquavit or brandy to make a soft, firm dough. You may need more or less liquid, depending on the size of the yolks. Form the dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and set in the refrigerator to cool and firm,