Hvorfor hedder de jødekager?
Tja … Det tror jeg faktisk at der er mange mennesker der undrer sig over, og ikke aner.
Jeg har altid selv tænkt hvorfor de havde det navn 🙂
Derfor blev jeg nødt til at google det.
SÅ! Jødekager … Opstod i 1700-tallet, da jøder kom til Danmark og de fleste slog sig ned som bagere. Her bagte de disse lækre og simple småkager, som blev solgt i julen. So simple! 😉
Opskrift
Antal: ca. 52 stk
Ingredienser:
- 250 gram hvedemel
- 150 gram blødt smør
- 100 gram sukker
- ½ tsk vaniljepulver
- 2 æg (1 til pensling)
- Sukker (drys)
- Kanel (drys)
Sådan gør du:
- Tag smøret ud i god til, så det er blødt
- Forvarm ovnen til 200 grader – alm. ovn
- Skær smørret i tern og bland det i en skål, sammen med mel
- Bland det sammen (håndmixer eller køkkenmaskine)
- Tilsæt sukker og æg
- Bland det god sammen til det bliver en fast dej
- Pak dejen ind i plastfilm, og læg det i køleskabet et par timer
- Rul dejen let ud på et meldrysset bord og drys mel på toppen af dejen (gær dette flere gange)
- Læg dejen på et bagepapir og rul dejen tyndt ud
- Skær dej af, som rager ud for bagepapiret
- Stik runde småkager ud, med en udstikker
- Fjern overskydende dej, og saml det i en bunke
- Flyt bagepapiret med småkager over på en bageplade
- Pensl småkagerne med sammenpisket æg og drys med kanel-sukker
- Sæt i ovnen i ca. 8 minutter
- Lad dem køle af på en rist eller et stykkebagepapir (uden bageplade)
- Fortsæt proceduren med resten af dejen, indtil der ikke er mere dej tilbage
Here you get a recipe, for some of my favourite christmas cookies.
In Denmark we have these ‘Jewish cookies’ for christmas ♥
They should have a great crust on the outside, but be soft in the inner core ♥ Yummie ♥
Why are they called ‘Jewish cookies’ ?
Well … I think there are a lot of Danes thinking this. I don’t know about you? But I think, that that you didn’t even knew that theese cookies existed, so you wouldn’t have thought that much about it 😉
I have been thinking a lot, why they have this name 🙂
so .. I googled it.
Jewish cookies … occured in Denmark in the 1700’s, because much of the jewish people that came to Denmark at that time, settled down as bakers, and baked these simple & great cookies for the Danes at christmas time.
So simple explanation! 😉
Recipe
Yield: Aprox. 52 cookies
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of flour
- 150 grams of soft butter
- 100 grams of sugar
- ½ tsp vanillapowder
- 2 eggs (1 for brushing)
- Sugar (sprinkle)
- Cinnamon (sprinkle)
How to make it:
- Take out the butter from the fridge, so it becomes soft
- Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees
- Dice the butter & mix it with flour in a bowl
- Mix it well with a hansdmixer or a kitchen mashine)
- Add sugar & egg
- Mix & knead it all well
- When it is kneaded & to a form dough, pack it in plastik wrap and store in the fridge for some hours
- Take the dough out of the fridge
- Sprinkle some flour on the table and on top of the dough (do this several times when you roll the dough) roll out the dough a bit with a roling pin
- Put the dough on a baking paper and roll it out
- If some dough are sticking out from the bakingpaper, then cut it of (store that for later)
- Cut out cirkles with a cookie cutter
- When it is done – Remove remaining dough (Store remaing dough for later)
- Move the bakingpaper with the jewish cookies over to the baking sheet
- Mix cinnamon & sugar
- Brush with stirred egg and sprinkle with the cinnamon-sugar
- Put in the oven for 8 minutes
- When they are done – Put the jewish cookies on a ovengrid ot baking paper to cool
- Do the same procedure with all of the remaing dough you have stored, until nothing is left
