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Mohn
Kichlach/Poppy Seed Cookies by Dawn Lerman
By FBWorld Team
Beauty
knew my father was always dieting and eating "food-like"
products instead of real food, and this upset her because
she knew that during the week, when I was home with my
parents, this was the food they would give me. "Food
needs to have a delicious, fresh taste and smell,"
she would tell me, and she would always make me smell
and taste things to guess the ingredients, whether it
was vanilla in cookies, strawberries in freshly baked
muffins, or dill in a barrel of pickles. "It needs
to be made in nature and not in a factory." - Dawn
Lerman, My Fat Dad
Mohn
Kichlach/Poppy Seed Cookies
Yield:
approximately 48 cookies
Ingredients:
3 Eggs, (beaten)
1 cup Granulated Sugar
1 cup Butter, (softened, or vegetable oil)
1 tspn. Vanilla
3 cups All-purpose Flour
4 tabls. Poppy Seeds
1 tspn.n Baking Powder
1/4 tspn. Salt
Procedures:
1. Parchment paper for rolling out the
dough and lining the baking sheet
2.
1 egg yolk thinned with 2 tablespoons of water for a thin
egg wash.
3.
In a large bowl beat the eggs and sugar with an electric
mixer until the mixture is a light yellow color. Continue
beating while adding the softened butter (or vegetable
oil) and vanilla. Mix well.
4.
the remaining dry ingredients in a bowl and with a fork
mix so that the poppy seeds are evenly distributed throughout.
Then add the dry ingredients into the egg mixture until
the dough just comes together. Form it in a ball and roll
out the dough between 2 parchment papers about an inch
thick. Place on a sheet pan and refrigerate the dough
till until it hardens, about 20 minutes.
5.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and cover a baking sheet
with parchment paper.
6.
Take the dough out of the fridge and peel off the parchment
paper. Cut into desired shapes using a knife or pizza
cutter. Place squares on the prepared baking sheet and
brush on the egg wash. Bake in the middle of the oven
for 10 to 12 minutes, or until slightly puffed and golden.
7.
Cool on a wire rack. The cookies will harden as they cool
Recipes from MY FAT DAD: A Memoir of Food,
Love, and Family, with Recipes
By Dawn Lerman - Berkley Books/September 2015
Photo
credit: Migle Seikyte via Foter.com / CC BY-SA
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