Recipe: Pfeffernuesse (from The Fredericksburg Home Kitchen Cookbook)

PFEFFERNUESSE
Source: The Fredericksburg Home Kitchen Cookbook

2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons butter, room temperature
4 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons cloves
2 teaspoons nutmeg
pinch black pepper
4 eggs, beaten
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup chopped pecans

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cream together sugar and butter.

Mix together cinnamon; cloves; nutmeg; and black pepper and add to creamed mixture.

Add the eggs, flour with the baking powder added, and the pecans.

Drop cookies on ungreased cookie sheet*.

Bake in 350 oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

*This makes about 80 large soft cookies or about 156 small cookies of harder texture.