Fattigmand
Ingredients
- 12 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 4 egg whites
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 12 tablespoons sweet cream
- ½ jigger of brandy
- 12 tablespoons sugar
- Flour to make stiff dough
- ½ cup butter melted
- Powdered sugar
Instructions
- Beat the egg yolks, add whites and then sugar; beat well.
- Add the cream, cardamom, and salt.
- Add melted butter.
- Add enough flour to make dough stiff enough to handle.
- Chill overnight (makes dough easier to work with).
- Roll out VERY THIN.
- Cut into diamond shaped pieces; cut a small slit in center lengthwise.
- Pull one end through the hole.
- Fry in deep fat until very light brown.
- Dust with powdered sugar.
- I cut the recipe in half.