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Brown Cookies

Course Dessert
Cuisine Danish
Servings 100 cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 250 g butter
  • 125 g light syrup
  • 250 g brown sugar
  • 1 1/2 tbsp cinnamon ground
  • 2 tsp cloves ground
  • 1 1/2 tsp orange shell grated
  • 100 g almonds
  • 1 3/4 tsp potash
  • 1 tbsp water
  • 500 g flour

Instructions
 

  • Melt butter, brown sugar, and syrup in a saucepan - do not let it boil
  • Combine cinnamon, cloves, orange peel, and half the flour in a bowl
  • Add the melted butter mixture to the bowl with cinnamon
  • Chop the almonds and add them to the dough as well
  • When the dough has the same temperature as your little finger or is colder: Mix potash and water in a cup till all of the potash has dissolved. Pour it in the bowl with the dough and stir.
  • Add the remaining flour to the dough and stir til it has an even texture. Roll a thick sausage of the dough ( 7-10 cm in diameter)
  • Put the cookie sausage in the fridge for 1-2 hours
  • Cut the cookie sausage into slices and place them on baking paper on a baking sheet
  • Bake the cakes in the oven at 175 degrees C for about 10 minutes
  • Store the cookies in a cookie jar