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Old 12-05-2013, 09:59 AM
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Mein grossmutter, on my dads side made Schwartzwalder Kirschtorte. (Black forest chocolate cake with cherries) and Appel Strudel, AND something she called Shnecken and many, wonderful Christmas cookies but one I never liked were the hard anise cookies that would break your front teeth if you weren't careful. I CAN'T think what they were called. They used a roller with designs on it.


I was the oldest child of the oldest child and I got to sit on my grandfathers hassock on Christmas Eve, a place of honor, and all of the other kids were having a ball in the basement.
Were the anise cookies called Springerle? They were a favorite of my father. I remember having to bite into them with my molars since they were so hard!