Norwegian Fattigman

Ingredients:

5 egg yolks

5 T. sugar

5 T. cream

1 T. cognac

1/4 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. cardamom

1 egg white

1 1/2 cups flour

Cooking Instructions:

Beat together egg yolks and sugar. Whisk in cream. Stir in cognac and spices. Beat egg white until it's stiff and carefully stir into other ingredients. Mix in a little more than half of the flour. Let dough stand, covered and in a cool place, overnight. Use the remaining flour-as little as possible-for rolling out the dough; the less flour you use, the more tender the fattigman will be. Roll the dough out a little at a time and as thinly as possible. Use a fattigmann cutter to cut out diamond shapes. Make a small diagonal cut in the center of each diamond, and "thread" one point of the diamond through the cut. Heat lard to 350º F. Fry fattigman until golden brown.

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