Belgian Iron Cookies Recipe
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Belgian Iron Cookies

By: Linda Housner  
"These have been in the family forever. They last forever - they mellow like fine wine. You must have a special iron to bake them over a gas burner. It's like two hinged plates and it usually has a pretty pattern that is pressed into the cookies as they bake one by one."

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Original Recipe Yield 10 dozen
 

Ingredients

  • 5 pounds all-purpose flour
  • 4 1/2 cups brown sugar
  • 12 eggs
  • 2 cups butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons whiskey

Directions

  1. Cream butter and brown sugar. Add eggs, vanilla, salt, and liquor (if desired). Blend in.
  2. Now it gets to be fun. You have to work in all five pounds of flour little by little by hand. It will work in but it takes a while. You'll wind up with a BIG mixing bowl of dough.
  3. Refrigerate dough overnight.
  4. Have plenty of people to help with the cooking. Lightly grease and heat the empty cookie iron over a gas burner. Start with a tablespoon and a half of dough rolled into a little "cigar" shape and vary amount to fit the size of your cookie iron. It takes from one to one and a half minutes to cook each cookie - it's a trial and error process at first till you get a handle on the temperature of the gas burner and the heat retaining capabilities of your iron. A properly cooked cookie will be golden and after cooled, crisp.
  5. This a family holiday tradition for us and we spend a whole day cooking cookies with lots of testing to make sure they're as good as last year's. The cast iron cookie irons work best, but I have seen people make them with the aluminum pizelle "irons". Ask for a krumkokie (croom cockie) iron at a gourmet cooking shop. We put them in tins and store till next Christmas, eating last year's cookies.

Nutritional Information open nutritional information

Amount Per Serving  Calories: 249 | Total Fat: 7.5g | Cholesterol: 59mg

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The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Dec. 19, 2002 by GRANNYANNE 
My Belgian mother used to make something similar. She used an electric waffle iron with extra... MORE
The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Dec. 14, 2002 by KHIX 
I tried this with a pizelle iron, but it didn't work out well because the dough is so thick. I... MORE
The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 0 star rating.
Reviewed on Jan. 1, 2009 by Mimee 
My Belgian family mother-in-law made this cookie and called them galettes with the emphasis on... MORE

 
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