WHB# 213 - Pepparkakor - Swedish gingercookies

ciao and welcome to this week's herbal blogging.
we are hosted by our friend Laurie from Mediterranean cooking in Alaska
thank you Laurie for hosting. :)



I wish to thank Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen for this event
and Haalo who been taken over since the last year
Thank's both of you.
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When we talked to my parents this morning (they still live in Sweden)

they told me it was snowing!

it was about time,

when I was little and still lived there it started to snow in end of October

..and it never stopped :)))
sometimes we had snow until my birthday in mid April! :))

this is the look of our lake today,

it seems it will start to snow any moment...
but how knows? :)))

then we talked to our son Niklas, he is studying in the USA, Iowa
they have a lot of snow..and -16°C !

brrrrrrrrrrr!!
he will be back soon, short before Christmas.
that's good, I do miss him :)

These cookies once were made only at Christmas,

now you find them all around the year.

ok, it is easy buying them..

but the satisfaction in doing them by your self is great!

make's me feel as a kid again :)))

Pepparkakor

you need:

*

350g of sugar

100g of marple syrup

130g of water

250g of butter

700g of plain flour

1tsp of baking soda

1tsp of ground cinnamon*

1tsp of ground ginger*

1tsp of ground cloves*

in a small pot melt the sugar and the syrup in the water.

add the baking soda and mix.

add the butter in pieces and the species.

whisk until butter is melted and it is all coolen.

pour the liquid in the flour and work the dough.

it is very soft, but it is ok.

when all the flour is worked in the dough, cover with plastic wrap and put in the fridge over the night.

the next day, take out just the amount you need to make some cookies and leave the rest in the fridge.

work quickly rooling out the dough (it melts so fast), use less flour as possible.

use cookie cuuters to cut our cookies.

put ona baking tray covered with baking paper.

bake in very hot oven 225°C - 437° F for 5-7min.

let cool, and the put them away in a box.

they will conserve for over 20days (sure, haha)

brigidaa_te:

* try your self out.

it is so personal the taste, but the right one should

pince on your tongue.

perhaps it seems a lot of sugar, but it is right.

I wish you a very nice week, the last before Christmas.

this is some photos of our Nordic Walking tour last Wendsday.

still, beautiful colours even if we are in the end of Dicember. :)