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Danzig Coffee Bread

4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g Flour (sifted)
• 250 g Sugar (sifted)
• 125 g Butter
• 4 pcs Eggs
• 5 g Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
• 10 g Cream of tartar

Instructions

1. Mix the butter, torn into small pieces, with the flour and stir with sugar and eggs to form a dough, which is left to rest and firm up overnight or at least for a few hours.
2. Press the dough apart, sprinkle baking soda and cream of tartar over it, work through as quickly as possible, and roll out to the thickness of a knife blade.
3. Cut out shapes with cutters or cut into figures and bake until dark yellow on a baking sheet.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.