Thank you for the great interest in the recipe for New Year's cookies.
I describe how my wife made the dough. Variations in the quantities of
ingredients is possible in different families.

Ingredienst:
200 g butter ~ 7 oz.
1 egg
225 g sugar (best will be Kluntje, those candy rocks you know from tea)
~ 8 oz.
450 g wheat flour ~ 1 lb
1/2 l water ~ 1 liquid pint
cardamom

Take a half liter of broiling water and solubilize 225 g of sugar. Let
it cool down.

Make 200 g  of butter liquid and let it cool down a little, then stir it
with an egg

Mix sugar water, flour and the butter with egg, add some cardamom and
stir all with an egg beater

Grease both iron surfaces with a bacon rind, if you don't have one, a
little amount of oil will also be good

Heaten the iron up and fill some of the dough onto the center of the
iron, press down the upper half and let the dough bake until it's
gold-yellow or light brown

Get the cookie off the iron, put it onto a wooden plate on the table and
immediately roll it over the cone - be careful, it's really hot, don't
keep it in place with your fingers, but keep it with a fork or so until
it's cooled down a little

While the cookie is cooling down you can add another portion onto the iron

Don't miss the break and drink a glass of wine or beer, it intensifies
the fun of making the cookies

With that amount of dough we produced about 60 cookies, it lasted about
2 1/2 hours

Those cookies were usually served on New Year's day, when neighbors
visited each other and wished a Happy New Year!

The coned cookies could be filled with heavy whipped cream, but also
were eaten alone

Have fun!

Jürgen

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