Spritz cookies were a favorite at our house. The children liked to make them because they were 'no fail' when it came to shape and they never 'grew' on the baking sheet. As you can see in the picture of Rachel and Bud, the cookie is shaped using a plunger/cylinder unit. The shape of the cookie is determined by the shape of the plate at the bottom of the cylinder. In these photos they are making cookies shaped like flowers.
Ingredients
Lard, sour cream, sugar, salt, baking soda, baking powder and vanilla.
OR
A pound of butter, a cup of sugar, one egg, and 4 cups of flour.
Spritz cookies were fun to eat because you pop the whole thing in your mouth at once had a nice buttery taste and a crisp bottom. For those of you who are not Norwegian they are also called butter cookies.
When Rachel and Bud were little they liked to make spritz cookies. When they were a little older than like to make them purple and they call them Ms. Sanford cookies. One year when Bud was in second grade we bought a brandy snifter, and filled it up with little green Christmas trees to give to his teacher as a gift. I think they all got eaten before she left the building for the day! Just so you know, these can be sprinkled with sugar too!
But you know what’s really special? Ella Anderson Steinhauer gave us a cookie press for Christmas the first year we were married. It came in a two-tone green box. The box fell apart years ago; I cut the recipe off the side and put all of the pieces in a plastic bag. I would like to say that in the divorce settlement I got the cookie press! But I wouldn’t want anybody to know that just in case the other party wanted it back. Thanks Ella, for your long standing gift of friendship and the cookie press from 1962.
Press on!
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