Baking Through Time: Vintage German Crisps Recipe from 1937!

‘This makes too many cookies’ is a sentence that should never be uttered. 😎

My grandparents were from Germany and this was made every Christmas by both my grandmother and my mother and is my absolute favorite cookie. As for whether or not, it’s German, I can’t say, but it certainly a tradition in my German family ❤

These are called Icebox cookies in the 1936 Watson cookbook. Our family (mostly of German heritage) loves these going back four generations

The frozen dough would make a nice treat to give someone. You could make a whole batch of the dough and share it.

I have this vivid memory of being 10 years old and helping my babysitter cut cookie dough from a log and bake them into what I remember as the best cookie I had ever eaten. Over the past 40+ years, I've often wondered what those cookies were -- but I only remember them as crispy, brown sugary, with nuts. I am convinced that this is the recipe and I'm so excited to go try this! By the way, she was a German-American woman.

I'm German. The recipe is unknown to me in this form. But... there are "Mürbteig Plätzchen" (Shortcrust cookies) These are often baked together with the children at Christmas (using seasonal cookie cutters). But we don't actually use brown sugar in pastries here and the recipes I know use finely ground hazelnuts. (250g cold Butter, 300 g Flower, 80 g Sugar, 200 g ground hazelnuts, Salt, 5 g Baking Powder & 15 g Vanilla Sugar)

These are Icebox cookies from my great grandmother, who wrapped them in greased paper. My grandmother and mother wrapped in waxed paper. They are delicious!!!

Wondering if you ground up the cookies they'd make a tasty crust for a pie.

0:46 Childrens Healthful Sandwiches. Sounds like something I would have ran screaming from as a child.

Not about those delicious icebox cookies, but how very Canadian to have a recipe for "Chili Sauce" that hasn't so much as the SHADOW of an actual chili pepper in it! LOVE IT!😆

Looks like a fairly standard Mürbeteig we make here in Germany, minus the nuts and the brown sugar. We'd usually use white sugar I guess. My family has used this kind of dough basically every year for making Christmas cookies. But I guess it's just how you'd make a cookie dough basically everywhere in the world, so I guess that your assumption "got the recipe from the German neighbours" might be correct. 😊

Now all you need is coffee or tea and you're set. These cookies would be great for a Christmas cookie exchange. Thanks Glen.

@9:25 I could drop by next weekend for cookies :D

Good morning Glen! Always look forward to the Ole cookbook show every Sunday! Hope you and Jules are doing well this week!

There is a Danish cookie like this (no egg, with a bit of spice, almonds not walnuts in the recipe I have) called Brunkager. I can well imagine that this is also baked in Germany due to geographical proximity. Foodgeek did a video a couple of years ago.

My mom made icebox cookies for us in the 60’s. The logs were wrapped in waxed paper and put in the freezer. One log equaled one pan and we could have fresh cookies frequently. My mom was German but I don’t know where she got the recipe.

We Can Make These Rolls Of Dough & Safely Freeze Them For 3 Months. A Lovely Addition To My Christmas Baking For 2024. I’ll Want To Make These Very Soon. ☀️

These biscuits look identical to Belgian fancy manufacturer Jules Destrooper’s Almond Thins, obviously swapping the more European almond for the more American walnut. The use of light brown sugar or cassonade as it would be called in French fits in Dutch/Belgian tradition and is also mandatory for the famous Speculaas spice cookies. Perhaps this another one of those instances where Dutch (meaning the Low Countries) and German (because the endonym is Deutsch) get completely mixed up, because I don’t really know any German recipes which use brown sugar. If these are anything like Jules Destrooper’s cookies, they’re lovely!

I am german, I never saw that type of cookie, but it looks great..... It depends obviously where the contributor or their family was from in Germany, because only I don't know these doesn't mean that those were common in some areas.... The most common nuts here now are walnuts and hazelnuts. I am from the area south west in germany near the French boarder. I love your videos 👍🏻

I was born in 1951 in Ontario, and as a child remember my gran having an icebox. We rented a cottage where there were all ice boxes and we loved going to the icehouse to get a new block of ice and get cool. I love tea dunking cookies and will definitely try these. Thanks for providing us with a delightful show