[Sca-cooks] Maybe OOP? Looking for German walnut cookie recipie

[Karin Burgess]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A907535
   
  scroll down for walnut cookies, though not period
   
  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/german-spice-cookies/detail.aspx
   
  Not period either :(

   
  German spice cookies in which some recipes call for ground walnust, also known as Gewurzplatzchen.  
   
  Not exactly what you might be looking for but it is a start :)
  -Muiriath 
  
Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
  Are you sure it's walnuts, not hazelnuts? The ones with which I am familiar 
are powdered hazelnut and a little flour mixed with some butter and some 
sugar, baked in the shape of a cresent and then rolled in powdered sugar.

Bear

> Greetings all,
> My Lady is looking for a recipe she saw made many years ago. It
> was supposed to be German in origin, but we don't know the time period. It
> was a cookie recipe, similar to what are now called butterball cookies. 
> The
> major difference seemed to be that it used walnuts ground down into a 
> flour.
> I know this isn't a lot to go on, but if anyone has any ideas on what 
> recipe it
> might be, we'd appreciate hearing from you!
>
> -Kean


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