Cookies of Joy Recipe
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Ingredients: 1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup apple sauce
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 tbsp. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1 tsp. ground cloves
3/4 tsp. ground cardamom
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Directions:Let the butter soften and then cream it with the brown sugar and apple sauce in a medium-sized bowl. Beat in the egg. If using walnuts and raisins, mix them in at this point. Combine the remaining ingredients in a separate bowl. Mix half the contents of this bowl into the butter-sugar-egg mixture. Add the other half and mix thoroughly. Chill the dough for an hour or more (overnight is best) to make it more workable.
Heat oven to 350º. Form the dough into about 24 walnut-sized balls by rolling them between your palms, if dough is firm enough to do so. If not, use a small ice cream scoop or two spoons and place about 24 dollops of dough on a parchment-paper-covered cookie sheet (or a greased and floured one). Bake for 12 to 15 minutes. Allow to cool on the cookie sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack to finish cooling. |
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Servings:about 2 dozen cookies |
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Time:50 minutes (plus refrigeration time) |
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Notes: Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th century mystic, Benedictine abbess, musician and scholar. This recipe is an adaptation of one contained in her treatise "Physica: Liber Simplicis Medicine". She recommended these cookies for slowing the aging process, creating a cheerful countenance, lightening a heavy heart and releasing intelligence. "Eat them often", she says, "and they will calm every bitterness of heart and mind--and your hearing and senses will open. Your mind will be joyous and your senses purified. . ."
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