Deep-Fried Cardamom Cookies

I love all things fried and was so thrilled to discover that fattigmand, a traditional Norwegian fried holiday cookie was prepared by housewives in their mid-twentieth-century kitchens. Cookies: Westinghouse Christmas Cookie Cookbook (no date) has a fattigmand recipe using nutmeg. I substituted a generous helping of cardamom, and added it to the confectioners’ sugar that I sifted over the just-fried cookies for a spicier pop. Traditionally, the