Cooking Recipe Peppernuts (Pfeffernussen)
Recipe Ingredients
Directions
Cream the white and brown sugar with the shortening. Beat in the eggs
and vanilla.
Combine the raisins, coconut, and nuts, grind fine in a food
processor or grinder. Add to the above.
Sift the flour, baking soda, and salt together; add these, along with
the buttermilk, to the above.
Divide the dough into several parts; roll each part into a long, inch
thick snakelike shape; cut the snake at approximately half inch
intervals. Arrange the nut-like cookies on an ungreased cookie sheet;
bake at 325 degrees for 10 - 12 minutes, depending on whether you
prefer softer or crunchy cookies.