Fattigman

This recipe was made by Hayley, a sweet, young friend and piano student of mine. She was making something Norwegian for a geography party she and my daughter EL were having. She saved me one for after the party, and they were delicious!!

Here is the recipe, for posterity's sake. Fattigman are apparently also known as "Poor Man's Cookies."

2 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
1/2 C. sugar
1/2 C. cream
1/2 C. melted butter
1 Tbsp. baking powder
2-1/2 -- 3 C. flour
1/4 tsp. vanilla or cardamom
powdered sugar for dusting

Beat eggs and sugar. Add butter and cream. Stir in baking powder. Slowly add 2-1/2 C. flour. Add more flour, if necessary, to get the right rolling consistency.

Roll dough out about 1/2 in. thick. Cut dough into diamond shapes, 3 in. long and 1-1/2 in. wide. Cut a slit in the center of each cookie. Pull bottom point of cookie through the slit. This makes the cookies into a bow shape.

Drop cookies into hot oil and fry until light brown.

Drain on newspaper and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

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For a fun video lesson I found online--and a little bit different recipe--see here.

Here's "Wally's mother's recipe," demonstrated in the video above, which looks to be a little bit different from Hayley's recipe:

4 egg yolks
2 whole eggs
6 Tbsp. sugar (NOT 6 C. like he says at the first in the video!)
1/2 C. thick sweet cream (later in the video he says 1 C., but it looks like 1/2 C. to me)
1 generous Tbsp. brandy
dash salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
3ish C. flour