Bestemor's Fattigmann Bakkel

Poor Man's Buckle

2 ½ - flour
½ C – sugar
4 – egg yolks
2 – egg whites
3 T – milk
2 T – brandy
½ tsp – cinnamon
½ tsp – cardamom (~ 8 seeds ground)
¼ C – butter (real butter)

Make dough and put in icebox (refrigerator) over night.

Roll dough thin and cut with roller into diamond shaped cookies. Cut a key hole in the diamond shape and tuck one end of the diamond through the key hole.

Deep Fry.

We purchase our cardamom in the spice isle of our local health food store. We have also taken to using a coffee grinder to grind the cardamom rather than the normal mortar and pestle. It is so much easier to measure the caramomn into the grinder and punch a button than to play with the mortar and pestle.