[asianthree]

My great grandmother recipe is in my family’s book in her hand writing, in German. Two versions, one the way most German families made them, converting to a hard cookie as they aged,

The second recipe when sugar was not available, honey was used. The family raised bee’s and honey is in almost every recipe in the book.

Problem is when using honey in any cookie recipe, they never get hard. I hate soft cookies. I have her original individual molds, which was the only way cookie was made in her kitchen. But in her 90s she started using a rolling pin carved by someone in the village. It was easier then molding each cookie.