Pfeffernüsse

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Pfeffernüsse: Pepper nut cookies.

My family celebrated Christmas with the usually assortment of food, including Pfeffernüsse. I did not know it meant pepper nuts nor that it had an umlaut over the u. They were round balls of rather short pastry with ground up nuts and a somewhat licorice taste, covered with white confectioner's sugar. They were a bit of a mess to handle. They were not home made. Somehow the word reminds me of the joke attributed to Baron Munchausen. "My", but you are looking effervescent tonight!" "Did you ever see me ven I ever vasn't?"

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