Latvian Pepper Cookies Recipe - Very Easy! - Piparkukas Recepte

Every Christmas homes all around Latvia and indeed the Baltics and Scandinavia make pepper cookies ready for the festive season. They are so easy and fun to make, every one can join in around the table and make it a great family time together.
It's important to remember that pepper cookies are not gingerbread at all despite them often being translated this way. Many recipes like ours don't even include ginger!
Recipe:
330g Butter
100g Dark sugar
100g Dark honey
200g white sugar (or light brown sugar)
900g All purpose flour (adjust when kneeding to suit)
2 teaspoons of baking soda
Spice Mix:
2 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tsp ground cloves (leave out if you don't like)
2 tsp ground cardamons
2 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp ground black pepper
Optional extra spices:
Ground ginger
Ground allspice
Christmas in latvian is called Ziemassvētki and is also celebrated by people whose religious belief is not Christianity. Nowadays the customary Ziemassvētki traditions are decorating the Ziemassvētku egle (Christmas tree), Ziemassvētku vecītis (Santa Claus, lit. Old Christmas Man), baking piparkūkas and mandarin scent.
In 2018 we left the UK to come to Gita’s family homestead here in north Latvia, not far from the Estonian border and now we live somewhere nowhere in the middle of a forest in a house built by Gita’s grandfather. We’re videoing our journey and trying to give you some insights into how we’re living here.
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