Peppernuts

If you want to know what Christmas tastes like, you should bake peppernuts. The combination of flour, butter, honey, candied oranges and lemons as well as the addition of spices from distant countries make this biscuit, which is easy to make, absolutely aromatic. In the handwritten and printed historical cookbooks of the 19th century, one can discover many variants of peppernuts. Often eggs, yellow or fine sugar, potash as a raising agent, sometimes nutmeg, mace, and anise, as well as a pinch of white pepper are added. You can cover them with icing or chocolate glaze after baking, but to be honest, they taste great even without any icing.