FARMORS PEPPARKAKOR | My Grandmother’s Swedish Gingersnaps | 12 Days of Christmas 2022 ep.5

Think of these as like the Swedish version of gingerbread cookies, but thin and crisp, not soft. This recipe comes from my farmor, my paternal grandmother, and is the recipe I have grown up with. Its a bit different from the modern pepparkakor you find in Stockholm nowadays. Most are usually fairly heavily spiced with cloves, cinnamon, and ginger. Her recipe uses only cloves and orange zest, resulting in a spiced but more subtle cookie. I love these so much and making them is always like one of the highlights of Christmas for me.
285g golden syrup (ljussirap or lyles golden syrup)
285g sugar
285g butter
2 eggs
830g flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cloves (preferably freshly ground)
1 orange zest
Heat the syrup and sugar together until the sugar is melted. Add in the butter a bit at a time to cool down the syrup. Transfer to a mixing bowl and add the eggs one at a time. Add the cloves, zest and baking soda. Add the flour a bit at a time, just until you have a workable dough, about 650g (ish). Let the dough rest overnight. Roll out until it is very thin. Cut out shapes and put on parchment lined trays. Bake at 175C/350F for about 8 minutes.
You will really get into a grove with these cookies, especially if you have two cookie sheets working

[@clairefarnell9489]

Really enjoyed watching this. Thank you from Alberta,Canada. I will be making 100's of them for the Farmers market in 2 weeks.❤

[@scottsnodgrass4361]

You almost lost me when you called us “your dudes” but I’m glad I stayed. I’m a Missouri home baker who’s Great Grandparents were Swedish. My baking is mostly focused on authentic Christmas cookies/treats from Germany and other European countries. I’m so glad you got to spend such quality time with your Grandmother. Thank you for sharing her recipes/technique. I will certainly check out your channel.

[@emloufox]

This channel is so underrated

[@ceciliatolone]

Thank you!!

[@lindalee7127]

Thank you Cecilia. I love grandma’s cookies

[@campingqueen8121]

You’re cookie cutters are adorable, as are you. I have a big collection also. My kids and grandkids love pepparkakor! It’s important to pass this down to them to remember their paternal heritage. They will make sure that my cookies don’t last for months!

[@victoriabyrne4303]

Great details, never heard before. Thank you! A masterclass in baking delicate biscuits.

[@lauraaguayo9574]

Thank you!, beautiful explanation and truly interesting recipes are in you Chanel. Greetings from México 🇲🇽

[@notsomuchthankyou]

Yep! My mom had a glass cutting board too.

[@ceciliatolone]

So crazy! I haven’t seen one since I was a kid.

[@nordscan9043]

Pomerans in Swedish is bitter Seville orange.

[@kimchristoph1509]

My husband's and son's favorite!!! I have yet to master these, will try your method & recipe although I will add a few more spices that are from my husband's grandmother's recipe. Can't wait to give them a try.

[@danbev8542]

Orange and cloves!!! Yum! Thanks for this recipe. I may try this with maple syrup- don’t have any golden syrup.

[@ceciliatolone]

Maple syrup would be good but might be too watery. Just pay attention to the amount of flour you’re putting in. Honey would also be a good substitute 😊

[@nordscan9043]

Bitter Seville oranges.

[@bakedbyjeffreyaustin808]

Try half dark corn syrup and half regular corn syrup minus 10 percent weight of both syrups and juice or water or Earl grey tea. Back in 82, working for Germans and Swiss, we used a commercial glucose 42 DE. 🎉❤

[@brendencarlson9558]

This is how my mom made them, and her mother. My mor mor was from Lycksele. However, theirs were definitely “clovey”. I cheat and roll it into a tube and wrap it in plastic, then when its cold I get my sharpest knife and slice them as thin as I can. Mom always rolled them out like you, but always a glass, never cookie cutters. Never festive at our house. 😆

[@ceciliatolone]

These are super clovey. Love this “cheat” though! I need to remember that!

[@MrShinentwist]

Sooo cool😊

[@Reinolds_Recipes]

Thanks a lot

[@ceciliatolone]

You’re welcome!

[@Razar19]

Just ate an entire packet of the dough 😈🔥

[@readyplayer2]

I don’t know if this was just my family, but we would place a pepparkaka in one hand and rap on it with a knuckle from the other hand. The goal was to get it to split into 3 and only 3 pieces. If you failed, help yourself to another one and try again. If you won, well, have another and try to win again. 😉 Like many Swedish cookies these aren’t too sweet, so having a bunch with a coffee won’t send you into a diabetic coma. Um, unless you’re diabetic, then don’t try that.

[@alekscains4862]

The modern way with a dough like this, is to pour it onto a huge sheet of cling film/plastic wrap and roll it into a sausage and cut pieces of the dough sausage. Because this type of dough bends cheap spoons.

[@ceciliatolone]

The sausage way is smart! I just released a video for a more modern pepparkakor recipe that is definitely easier than this one. This one is very old fashioned.

[@alekscains4862]

@@ceciliatolone I always look at the modern recipes and wonder about the texture because you're not melting the sugar etc. But I left Sweden over 20 years ago...

[@Etchetera_travels]

What can we replace golden syrup? Can we use maple syrup?

[@icingtons5943]

Would you mind we ask what's the shelf life or how to maintain the freshness, please?

[@victoriabyrne4303]

She talked through that around 14:40 (quick answer: months)

[@katherinekatherine8512]

Thank you for this recipe. I love these cookies at Ikea (Canada) but the ingredients they use are nasty.

[@itsmegamerred]

du kan inte jämföra detta med amerikansk pepparkaka

[@ceciliatolone]

Vad menar du?

[@rolfsvensson5777]

Yep! It is all true! Grand ma did it that way! Thank you dear! The problem now is to find a woman that even cook!