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Christmas baking

3 recipes · Baking

3 christmas baking recipes from the “Big Cookbook,” in the baking category. From Henriette Schønberg Erken's original text to a modernized version for today's kitchen.

  • Bordstabelbakkels (Stacked Christmas Cakes)

    Erken's bordstabelbakkels: a tender base of egg, cream, sugar, butter and flour cut into bars, topped with almond mixture and dried at low heat.

  • Poor Man's Cookies I (fattigmannsbakkels)

    Fattigmannsbakkels I from Erken (1914): a large, rich batch with 30 egg yolks, cream, cognac and cardamom, rolled thin and deep-fried in lard.

  • Julekake II

    Julekake II from Erken (1914): a rich mold-baked Christmas bread with butter, eggs, sultanas, candied peel and cardamom. Milk and flour amounts missing.