Elisabeth Luard

Swedish Christmas Cookies

Santa Lucia’s Peppersnaps

Preparation info
  • Makes around

    60

    little cookies
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment
Sacred Food

By Elisabeth Luard

Published 2001

  • About

The cream-rich dough gives a fine-textured crisp cookie when rolled thin enough—too thick and they’ll be jawbreakers. The dough must be allowed its overnight rest to develop the body for rolling and cutting; don’t be put off when it looks sticky when first mixed.

Ingredients

  • ½ cup / 150 ml black treacle
  • ½ cup / 125

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F / 180°C / Gas 4. Heat the treacle until runny. Mix all the ingredients except the lemon juice, then work in enough juice to form a soft dough. Cover and chill overnight.
  2. Next day, knead the dough lightly, and roll it out as th