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A few years ago, when I was living in the housing co-op and looking for a quick cookie recipe, I came across a blog post for something called âNorwegian Christmas butter squares.â Iâd never found anything like it before: it created rich, buttery and chewy cookies, like a vastly superior version of the holiday sugar cookies Iâd eaten growing up. About a year ago I went looking for the recipe again, and failed to find it. The blog had been taken down, and it sent me into momentary panic.Â
Luckily, I remembered enough to find it on the Wayback Machine, and quickly copied it into a file that Iâve saved ever since. I probably make these cookies about once a month, and they last about five days around my voracious husband - theyâre fantastic with a cup of bitter coffee or tea. Iâm skeptical that there is something distinctively Norwegian about these cookies, but they do seem like the perfect thing to eat on a cold day.Â
Norwegian Christmas Butter Squares
1 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 egg 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla œ tsp salt Turbinado/ Raw Sugar for dusting
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Chill a 9x13âł baking pan in the freezer. Do not grease the pan.
Using a mixer, blend the butter, egg, sugar, and salt together until it is creamy. Â Add the flour and vanilla and mix using your hands until the mixture holds together in large clumps. If it seems overly soft, add a little extra flour.Â
Using your hands, press the dough out onto the chilled and ungreased baking sheet until it is even and Œ inch thick.  Dust the top of the cookies evenly with raw sugar.
Bake at 400 degrees until the edges turn a golden brown, about 12-15 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let cool for about five minutes before cutting the cooked dough into squares. Remove the squares from the warm pan using a spatula.
So I tried this recipe.
And it is GREAT.
It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them theyâre sugar cookie bars.
Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt
I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Letâs see how long they last with six people in the house!
Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably wonât do a grocery shopping till the weekend).
The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Havenât tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.
Iâve reblogged this before and Iâm reblogging it again because Iâm about to make it again tomorrow and I wanted to add my own tale of just how amazingly delicious it. it was SO incredibly simple to bake and with an extra dusting of brown sugar on top and served warm and soft they gift you with the taste of the nectar of the gods when paired with a small glass of milk. this image is from when I first made them a couple years ago:
GO. MAKE THESE !!!!
Needed to make a dessert in a hurry to bring to Thanksgiving, and this recipe worked excellently. I did not have the right kind of sugar for the topping, so instead I used a packet of lemonade powder, which gave it a nice citrusy zing.
Making these for myself as a reward for doing the no fun thing Iâve been putting off. Added half a lemon of lemon juice and a bit more flour. Letâs see how it turns out. >:3
Verdict: tasty.
âŠThese were very, very good. :) (Baked them in the âAll Edgesâ Masterclass brownie pan.)
Confirming the goodness, though not quite yet the past-tenseness, since there are a couple left in the biscuit tin.
Thatâs not going to last because, airtight though that tin is, the butter squares have dried out somewhat in the couple of days since they were made. I had one and, while the taste was as good as ever, the texture was starting to approach that of shortbread.
So, make âem, admire âem and eat âem. Thatâs what weâre about to do⊠:->
Iâm also wondering, since these are meant for Christmas (not that it stopped us making them in August) how some spices - cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and maybe even a pinch of white pepper - would work in this recipe.
Something to try next time.
every time i see those posts like âwhat food from a show did YOU always wanna tryâ i go lol none? but i just remembered im a liar
i always wanted the fucking soup brock made in the pokemon anime
Hello OP, i donât have anyway to prove this is the same recipe they make in the shows but i make this to calm my inner kid from wanting the fictional soup:
300gr bacon, beef or chicken. A meat of your choice. These go specially well. I prefer chicken tights. Diced
1 medium onion, diced.
Garlic minced (i used 2-4 pieces depending on size)
300gr carrot, cleaned, peeled and diced.
3 sticks of celery, washed and diced.
800gr potato. Washed, peeled diced in quarters.
1 head of broccoli.
8 cups of stock of your preference. I recommend using the bones of the beef or chicken, but veggies stock works too for a vegetarian or vegan version.
3 tablespoons all purpose flour.
1 cup whole milk. (Almond or rice milk work fine for a vegan option)
œ cup heavy cream. (Skip it for a vegan option)
Salt and black pepper to taste.
œ teaspoon paprika, use the spicy one to get the warmth up a notch in winter.
1 tablespoon fresh chopped coriander. Optional.
1 cup diced gouda or manchego cheese. Optional but really ties all together.
Make sure you have all your ingredients ready and at hand for this one to make sure it comes out nice and tasty!!!
In a pot put water and the bones to prepare your stock (chicken, beef, veggie) You can use premade or bouillon cubes, just make sure its 8 cups worth of broth. In a different pot boil the potatoes until soft.
In a big pot put some butter or olive oil to fry the onion, when it turns a little transparent add the garlic, move constantly.
Add the celery and diced carrots, moving constantly.
The carrot will get a little brighter in color, add the diced meat. Salt and pepper to your taste.
Meanwhile, blend the potatoes with enough stock so your blender wont have trouble blending. If you have a food processor, itâll be easier.
Ad the remaining stock to you big pot with the veggies and meat, add the broccoli chopped in bite size pieces. Add the paprika and taste for salt and pepper. Let over a medium fire for 10 min.
Separate 3 tbsp of the stock to mix with the flour, set aside. This will be a thickening agent.
Pour the potato mix on the big pot, move to integrate and taste for salt and pepper.
Add the milk and heavy cream. Move with a laddle. Have a final taste and let over low fire for 5 min.
Serve hot and decorate with a pinch of coriander and some cubes of cheese.
ENJOY!
Notes:
I personally prefer to use chicken, love how it goes with potatoes and veggies. Also the tight is very tender and flavorful. With beef you have to be careful not to overcook it or itâll get gummy and hard to bite, so make adjustments.
VEGAN: could also skip the meat, cheese and heavy cream for a vegan option.
I make it for my younger sister and she loves it. Instead of meat i add some diced, toasted nuts when served. Cashew, pecan and pistachios work nicely.
Youâll have to use 5 tbsp of flour to thicken up the broth a tid bit more without the heavy cream but you can still use a vegan milk.
You can totally skip the coriander, but it adds another dept of flavor.
Do try it with the cheese tho, i promise itâs GODLY. Gouda and manchego are my fave, the melt nicely and have a strong after taste, but i guess any cheese that melts could work.
Finally, if you are like me and like spicy food you can add chopped chili. Serrano and arbol chiles are my go toâs, freshly chopped sprinkled just after serving my bowl.
Hope y'all give it a try and if you have any doubts do ask!
Provecho!
this is literally the best addition iâve ever gotten to any of my posts thank you so much
Hey I tried this recipe out and I can confirm that it tastes heavenly!!
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bobby flay from food network is unfuckable!
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i donât think Iâm ever going to get over this line
 #the problem with becoming the kind of hero you needed yourself #is that it canât change the fact #that nobody came for you                          Â
If you follow Selmers to the poetry society meeting in Night In The Woods, this is her poem. I loved it and the themes of the game, and wanted to use it as practice to see if i can control the way readers âhearâ the words through images.
Stop breaking your own heart by exaggerating your place in other people's lives
So I was looking at Geralt's promo posters for The Witcher and..
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Ok, I'm sensing a pattern here...
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Just putting out there what everyone's thinking.
Y'all know where to find the unc*nsored bottom image (pun intended).
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donât bite the hand that fingered you or whatev they say
reading a poem a recipe author wrote about her mother who passed and tearing upâŠâŠâŠ. thank you bread recipe for the small dose of heart and tenderness đ„șđ
@illnessâ
some sort of love poem
This is the wildest result of one of my comics becoming popular I feel rabid
was just gonna reblog this bomb ass comic again bc it's a mood but the author's addition is hilarious. this is why your english teachers taught you to find meaning in a text
I don't know what the fuck this jeans but it's hilarious
was just Remembering how youâd be out with a friend and youâd each order a different cocktail and youâd ask âwhatâd you get?â and theyâd read the description off the menu and youâd be like âooh that sounds goodâ and then theyâd say âtry it!â and then youâd have a lil sip of their drink and theyâd have a lil sip of your drink and youâd decide which one was best and you wouldnât give each other a life-threatening respiratory infection
If you donât have anywhere to wear a very specific piece you have in your wardrobe, grab a friend or three and host a âsoirĂ©e.â Get some $5 sparkling wine or grape juice, some cheese or cocktail onions or grapes if you donât eat cheese and make a Playlist and just walk around one of your homes being fancy together. Itâs nice to go out but if you canât, donât let that stop you.
i just got soirée and séance confused and the last two minutes were a bit distressing
Honestly? Invite your ghost friends too. They probably have hella looks to serve.
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Beautiful and incredibly important.
Give the events names, give them themes, make them reoccur.Â
I have a friend that I see 3-6 times a year for âDracula Breakfast.â We meet at a diner and drink coffee and I eat waffles and she eats eggs and we talk about Dracula. Then other things. Then monsters in general. Then back to Dracula.
For about 2 hours, then we schedule another Dracula Breakfast and go our separate ways. This is our only form of communication because weâre both introverts who like to spend time apart.
There is no other standing appointment in my life that could rival Dracula Breakfast.
We exchange tiny gifts occasionally (almost always something weâve made and nothing that is ever more than a few dollars). Iâm always 5 minutes late. I usually do not sleep the night before to try to make it on time and I inevitably fail ever. Single. Time.
I ramble.
Fancily.
And you should too.