December 12, 2017

Back to Yule recipes! Miss Lina might not give us many biscuits, but we got a lovely biscuit recipe from her! Just be careful after you have baked these (especially if you live in Bramblebury) - some mysterious biscuit crumbler might snatch them before you can say Lina Willowwood.

Kakemenn - "hobbiscuits" from the land of No-where*
*could be Norway too

Makes anywhere between 2-4 dozen cookies (depending on the size of your cutter)

4 Tablespoon (50 g) butter, melted
1/2 cup (100 g/.5 dl) sugar
1/3 cup (1 dl) milk
2 cups (240 g/5 dl) all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ammonium bicarbonate (or substitute 1/4 tsp baking soda and 1/4 tsp baking powder)

1. In a large bowl, mix together the melted butter, sugar, and milk.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the ammonium bicarbonate into the flour. Add the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Mix well, then chill for at least 2 hours.
3. Once thoroughly chilled, preheat the oven to 350F/175C. Roll the dough out into a 1/4 inch (1/2 cm) thick circle and cut out shapes using a cookie cutter. Put the cookies on a baking sheet, gather up the remaining scraps of dough, re-roll, then bake for 7-10 minutes. The cookies should still be mostly white when taken out of the oven, but fluffy and not doughy. Keeps for about 3 weeks in a cookie tin.

"Keeps for about 3 weeks in a cookie tin..." Yeah, sure! Nothing this delicious will last that long when there are hobbits around...

The recipe has been snatched from this site: http://transplantedbaker.typepad.com/the_transplanted_baker/2010/12/kakemenn.html