I have always associated the holidays with baked goods. The weeks leading up to Christmas at my house are marked with floured counters and dough balls in the back of the refrigerator. I remember ...

As a young boy in Germany, Herb Schwartz worked dough into intricate, hand-carved wooden molds to create a shortbread-type cookie called springerle. The crisp, anise-flavored cookies depicting St.

Here at Recipe Swap, we’re never quite sure which reader request is going to light up the switchboard, or to use a more modern metaphor, crash the e-mail inbox. A few weeks ago, reader “JR,” of ...

A dedicated cookie baker with a highly wrought sense of aesthetics might try his or her hand at German springerle -- the Christmas cookies of Swabia. The pale, embossed cookies are formed with ...

Every once in a while a recipe request comes along and I get flooded with letters. Springerle cookies seem to be the hit this year. Although I ran a recipe about a month ago, I couldn't resist adding ...

Here's a refreshing double recipe from Heather Botchlet, known to generations of Strasburg residents as "The Springerle Lady." She's an owner of that historic town's Springerle House, which pays ...

It's one of the oldest cookies know to woman. Called springerle, this cookie has been around since the 14th century according to a Web site I found offering the history of this According to the site, ...

Here are some sources for ingredients and equipment for baking springerle: – Baker’s ammonia. Also known as ammonium bicarbonate, hartshorn, hjortron and hirschorn salz, it is a precursor to modern ...

Mary Jo Baas of Brookfield said she always liked the look of springerle but not the “hard, dense anise cookies made from traditional recipes.” A shortbread recipe from King Arthur Flour brought her ...

Springerle are one gift that work just as well as ornaments or holiday decorations as they do as edible cookies. If you’re a dedicated cookie baker with a highly wrought sense of aesthetics, you might ...

A Strasburg business that deals in ancient images will undergo changes in upcoming weeks. Heather Botchlet, owner of the The Springerle House at 15 E. Main St., is moving the business closer to the ...