So, in that spirit, yesterday we made a big batch of peppernuts.
Yep, the recipe makes two gallons. Every couple of years we do this, mostly in memory of Great-Grandma, who loved peppernuts and made them every Christmas.
The girls helped for about ten minutes, then got bored and began to play while Grandma and I did the rest. Every once in awhile a finished cookie would accidentally drop to the floor, and then one of them would come running to eat it.
You make them by rolling the dough into a snake and then slicing off pieces and baking them. The "traditional" method is to make them tiny and bake them until very crispy. We prefer ours (by Great-Grandma's example) a little larger and softer.
Next week the girls have their International Thanksgiving Lunch at school, and they will take these cookies as representative of Germany. Their German name is pfeffernusse.
The girls have also been thinking of what they want for Christmas. Hannah put together her list using the following little poem, which I love: "One thing I want, one thing I need. One thing to wear, one thing to read." You can see her choices in the photograph below.
I tried to talk Sophie into doing the same, but she wanted to write a traditional letter to Santa. She asked for a number of cooking items to supplement the green cutting board and knife that she got after getting her last teeth pulled. Her letter will go out in tomorrow's mail.
As you can see, Christmas is in the air in the Hendricks household!
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