Dessert • Sweet
Toni’s Momo’s Prostens Pepparkokar
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This is my Mormor’s (Swedish for “Mother’s Mother”...but I always called her Momo) recipe. She was my great-grandmother who came to Canada in the 20s from Sweden with her husband (Papa), who worked on BC coastal logging camps with his brothers and family. When I was very young, long before I suffered from clove-heartburn, I would go to Momo’s house for Sunday tea. Tea was mostly milk and sugar with a bit of black tea in it, and I was allowed to eat as many of these cookies as my cheeks could house. My Mom’s no-sugar rule didn’t exist at Momo and Papa’s.
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ¼ cup butter
- ¼ cup Crisco
- ½ teaspoon cloves
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- ½ cup + 1 ½ teaspoon Rogers Golden Syrup
- ½ cup milk
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ cup coffee or hot water
- 4 ½ to 5 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Instructions
Step 1
Mix eggs into brown sugar using a spoon.
Step 2
Melt butter and Crisco. Cool slightly.
Step 3
Add to egg and sugar mixture along with spices, syrup and milk. Mix well.
Step 4
Mix baking soda into coffee. Add to spice mixture.
Step 5
Stir in some flour with baking powder.
Step 6
Keep on adding flour until it can be worked into a soft ball. Remember it has to stand overnight.
Step 7
Cover with plastic wrap and let stand in the fridge overnight.
Step 8
Roll out (¼ inch for soft or ⅛ inch for crispy cookies) on icing sugar and bake at 350°F.
