Recipe Talk

My 76-year-old mother used to make us these cookies at Christmas, and my siblings and I have been trying to track down the recipe. She believes it came from a Miles Kimball catalog in the 1960s. Would anybody know of a good source to try to track down this particular recipe? I've written to the company (haven't heard anything yet), but am very open to other suggestions (or the recipe itself!).

Thanks!

RecipeSource;Christmas Cookie Kringle

Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05 Title: Christmas Cookie Kringle Categories: Cookies

Yield: 1 servings -miles kimball 3 Hard-boiled egg yolks 4 tb ...

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SPRINGLES
This recipe is labor intensive, as the cookies are left out overnight to dry. However, they make Christmas for me, my family and my friends. You can tell how old the recipe is by the ingredients, and it is the original recipe passed down from my grandparents. They would make at least 800 of these cookies each year, with the help of their eight children.

4 eggs
1 lb. powdered sugar
butter - size of walnut
1/2 egg shell of milk
anise oil - 2 or 3 drops
pinch salt
1 tsp baking powder
flour to make dough stiff - 6 cups or less

Mix all ingredients together - roll out on floured coth. Spinkle a little flour on dough and use a special rolling pin or mold that imprints a design in the dough ( you can cut into 2x3 squares if you do not have a mold). Cut out and allow to dry overnight. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes at 350 degrees.

FlyBaby in MO

Patty, thanks so much for the recipe! Just out of curiosity, do these by chance make rock hard springerle? For whatever odd reason, the particular Miles Kimball recipe we're trying to track down seemed always to make really hard cookies. We've found other recipes that make softer cookies, and we're on a quest for the MK style hard ones. Thanks!