Little thumb cookies

 

Arnhem biscuits
Arnhem girls
  • 150 GRAM FLOUR
  • 100 GRAM BUTTER
  • 75 GRAM SUGAR
  • 1/2 TSP VANILLA SUGAR
  • 1 EGG WHITE
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Mix all ingredients and put the batter in a piping bag. Pipe twenty small sprits-like cookies and bake them 14 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius.

This is a recipe from Utrecht. 29 November is the name day of Saint Radboud (850-917), Bishop of Utrecht from 900; he performed his job from Deventer. The Nijmegen University is named after him. Click on culinary calendar for more links between cooking and worldwide history.

Roll out the pastry until it is approximately 1/2 centimeter thick, and cut circles with a large glass. Roll them out to ovals, brush them with egg and sprinkle with sugar. Bake them in the oven for 15 minutes at 220 degrees Celsius.

There is a discussion ongoing on the internet on the true name of these cookies. The official name seems to be "Arnhem biscuits" and as I respect my readers, especially if they seem to know better than me, I changed the name in the hyperlinks. In a technical sense, however, they are not really biscuits, and as I like the poetical sound of the "Arnhem girls", I have left both. I would like to invite anybody, who has good information on the background of these girls, to send me an email through "contact".



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