Hildegard von Bingen: Healthy, nutritive, vitalitising cookie:
Ingredients:
45g ground nutmeg
45g ground cinnamon
10g ground clove
1kg german wheat flour
300g cane sugar
500g butter
4 eggs
Mix up the spices, add the flour and the remaining ingredients.
Mush them together, if needed keep it calm during one night. Pin the pastry out, cut it out or roll it out and slice it up slightly.
Bake it at 180 degrees appr. 5-8 minutes. Depending on the size of the cookie, eat 4-8 pieces every day.
The taste of the cookie is delicious, always keep some at home.
Hildegard von Bingen writes about the cookie as follows:
The cookie dismisses the bitterness, brightens the mind and dismisses the bad lymphs in order to have a healthy body.