I also wanted to take pictures of each recipe that i made so i would know for future reference what the recipe should look like. Mennonite girls can cook is a collection of recipes which were posted daily for a period of ten years from 2008 to 2018.
My grandma always called these new years küken or cookies but you may also know them as portzelky.
Mennonite new years cookies. Mennonite monday new years cookies mennonite monday started because i wanted to make recipes from the bethesda mennonite church cookbooks both the yellow and the white cookbook for those of you who own them. We have over 3 000 delicious recipes that we invite you to try. Or new year s cookies as we call them but my body can t handle the grease of being deep fried.
Step 1 in a large bowl mix the flour sugar salt and nutmeg. So i tried to bake them this year. New year s cookies also called porzelchen high german or niejoash koake low german are traditionally made on the day before new year s in german mennonite households.
They are a german mennonite favorite always made for new year s day. Her family has been making the dessert for new year s day since before she was born. For as long as i can remember my mother served these for lunch on new year s day along with farmer sausage and dill pickles.
Puffy yeast raised little raisin cookies are fried to golden brown and sprinkled with confectioners sugar for a traditional mennonite treat to ring in the new year. When i was a kid these weren t my favorite thing because they contained a dreaded ingredient raisins. It is basically a type of fritter with raisins.
This year i tried making them myself and they turned out just as i remember. Portzelky new year s cookies this is a traditional mennonite recipe from the mennonite treasury cookbook. Originally called portzelky new year s cookies are an age old german mennonite recipe.
Portzelky new years cookies this is a recipe repost from several years ago but i think it is worth a reminder today that tomorrow is the day to heat up a pot of oil make a batch of raisin fritter batter and call your friends and family over to celebrate a new beginning to the new year. Njejoash koake were served at watchnight services in the mennonite. It goes back to the old country morgan says.
She adds that portzelky makes a fun new year s tradition because making it is engaging for the family. Dissolve the yeast in warm water. Stir the yeast mixture milk and eggs into the dry ingredients until just combined.
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