Krumkake

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GM's paternal grandmother used to send his family cookies every Christmas. GM says he and his brothers got most of the cookies, but his dad kept (some) of the krumkake for himself as they were his favorite. GM got the recipe for me from his Aunt Siggy, and last Tuesday was the first time it worked perfectly. The moon must have been in the right phase, or maybe the humidity was finally not wrong. Or, far more likely, this was the first time I was making krumkake undistracted by the frenzy of the big Christmas bake.

Aunt Siggy's Krumkake recipe
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup melted butter (unsalted), cooled to room temp
2 eggs
1 c whole milk
1 1/2 cup flour
pinch salt
1 tesp vanilla
(I added a tesp of powdered ginger. Cardamom is also good.)

Beat eggs lightly. Add sugar to eggs and beat until light. Add cooled butter. Mix in vanilla and salt. Mix in 1/2 cup of flour and tesp of ginger, a 1/2 cup of milk, a 1/2 cup of flour, a 1/2 cup of milk, and the last 1/2 cup of flour.
Put mixture in fridge for at least an hour.

I have an electric krumkake iron, which is much easier and less burny than the stove-top version.
Heat iron, put 1 Tbl of batter on each round. Close iron and wait 1 minute and 15 seconds. Open iron, roll krumkake on a wooden spoon handle if desired. Place on cooling racks. Repeat, preferably while watching television.

I'm going to make some M&M cookies tonight, and send them all off to my father-in-law tomorrow.

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