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Anise Cookies

4 servings

Ingredients

• 187.5 g Flour
• 187.5 g Starch (sifted)
• 375 g Sugar (sifted)
• 12 pcs Eggs
• 2 tbsp Anise seeds

Instructions

1. Beat the egg whites until stiff, slowly add the beaten egg yolks while continuously and vigorously beating.
2. Whisk in the sugar mixed with anise seeds spoon by spoon, then similarly add flour and starch.
3. Place the mixture spoonful by spoonful on a greased plate and bake until yellow at the second heat setting.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.