Swedish Lace Cookies Food

OATMEAL-LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• In a large saucepan over low heat, melt the butter. Let cool a bit and add all remaining ingredients except the eggs. Stir well to combine, then add the eggs. Mix thoroughly.
• Place 1 1/2 tablespoons of batter at a time on the parchment, leaving at least 3 inches between cookies. Flatten batter into a circle with the back of a spoon. Bake for 13 to 15 minutes, or until just golden brown. Cool on wire racks.

GRANDMA'S LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Melt butter in a microwave-safe bowl in a microwave. Add sugar and stir to combine. Add beaten egg and mix well. Stir in oats, flour, vanilla extract, salt, and baking powder.
• Drop teaspoonfuls of dough onto the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, about 8 minutes. Let cool completely before removing cookies from foil.

LACE COOKIES (FLORENTINE COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with a silicone liner (such as Silpat®).
• Place almonds into the bowl of a food processor; alternate pulsing and running at full speed every few seconds until finely chopped and crumblike. Be careful not to go too far; you don't want them too fine and pasty.
• Combine butter, brown sugar, and honey in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir a few times and cook until melted and dissolved. Bring to a boil, then carefully remove from the heat.
• Add vanilla extract, salt, and flour, and whisk until smooth. Add chopped almonds and mix with a spatula until everything is combined.
• Drop eight uniformly sized, rounded spoonfuls of batter (each about 2 teaspoons, or 15 grams) onto the prepared sheet. Fine-tune the cookie shapes and make sure they are evenly spaced.
• Place in the center of the preheated oven and bake until golden brown and a bit darker around the outsides, 10 to 12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through.
• Remove from the oven and slide the silicone liner off the baking sheet and directly onto the countertop. Allow to sit until cool and crisp, 3 to 5 minutes, then gently peel cookies off the liner. Repeat to bake remaining batches.
• Spread melted chocolate over the flat side of one cookie. Place a second cookie, flat-side down, on top to make a sandwich and press very gently to seal. Repeat to form remaining cookies. Let sit until chocolate has firmed up, about 30 minutes.

SWEDISH LACE COOKIES (USING SUGAR SUBSTITUTES)

Steps:

• In large metal bowl, pour boiling water over the oats. Let set.
• In mixing bowl, beat butter, eggs, splenda, vanilla and molasses (if desired).
• Add the baking powder and the salt to the oats. Mix.
• Add the rice flour and beat inches.
• Add the oat mixture to the egg mixture.
• Make sure it is mixed well.
• Oven 375°F.
• Foil the bottom of two cookie sheets.
• Drop tsp of dough two to three inches apart.
• Watch carefully. These cookies will brown quickly.
• Take off foil when they are still warm.
• Place in custard cups to form if desired.
• Cool. Sometimes I form on the sides of glasses. Serve ice cream in the formed cups.
• I serve applesauce in them also.

LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients in a bowl until well combined. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or no-stick aluminum foil. Drop batter 3/4-tsp. at a time on baking sheet, leaving plenty of space between each. Cookies will spread to 4 or 5 inches in diameter when baked.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes, until thin and golden. Check early to make sure they don't overbrown. Line a wire rack with wax paper. Carefully remove cookies from baking sheet. They will be sticky, and a thin, metal spatula works best. Gently transfer to wax paper on wire rack and let cool.

SCOTTISH LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 deg F.
• Cream together shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs, then extract. Gradually blen in oats and salt.
• Drop dough by spoonfuls 2 in apart on cookie sheets. Flatten cookies with the bottom of a glass dipped in flour. Bake 12-15 min until golden brown. Transfer to wire racks for cooling.

SWEDISH LACE COOKIES RECIPE

Steps:

• preheat oven 350 degrees. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, add flour and milk. Add almonds. Place in saucepan. Blend heat to boiling point. Stir constantly. Remove from heat. Keep mixture warm. Drop level TBL of batter 5 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees about 8 minutes or until golden brown. The cookie spreads and is lacy thin. Remove from oven. Let stand 1 minute or until cookies can be removed with spatula. They will be very hot Shape into cones as soon as possible.

HOLIDAY LACE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in corn syrup. Gradually beat in flour and mix well. Fold in pecans and cranberries. Shape dough into two 6-in. logs; wrap each and chill until firm, at least 2 hours. , Unwrap and cut into 1/4-in. slices. Place 3 in. apart on ungreased foil-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350° until center and edges are browned and lacy, 11-12 minutes. Allow cookies to cool completely before carefully removing from foil.

FRENCH LACE COOKIES II

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease cookie sheets and outside of 4 inverted 6-ounce custard cups.
• Whisk together the flour and almonds in a bowl; set aside.
• Bring the sugar, butter, and corn syrup to a boil in a saucepan stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and stir the flour mixture into the saucepan. Add the almond extract and continue stirring until incorporated. Measuring the batter by tablespoons, drop four cookies onto the prepared baking sheet. Spread each tablespoon of batter into a 4-inch circle.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the edges of the cookies are golden brown, 5 to 6 minutes. Remove the baking sheets from the oven and allow to cool for 1 minute. Use a spatula to remove the cookies from the baking sheet; place each cookie onto an inverted custard cup. Allow the cookies to cool while continuing to bake the remaining batter in batches.

SWEDISH HAVREFLARN COOKIES

Steps:

• Melt your butter in the microwave or in a small pot on the stove. Set aside.
• Use your blender or mini-food processor to whirl the oats into small bits. Do not process too long, you don't want powder, just smaller bits.
• Do the same with the toasted, cooled almonds, or chop very fine manually.
• Mix the melted butter, oats and almonds till well blended.
• Whisk egg and sugar together until sugar is dissolved completely and mixture is a smooth yellow color. Add extracts. Mix well. Add butter, oats and almond mixture. Mix well. I like to use a rubber spatula.
• Whisk 2T flour, baking powder and salt together, add to sugar/oats mixture. Mix until well blended. (Now, adjust Flour as needed, depending on your tastes and the humidity of the day. Start by adding a T at a time until batter is where you want it.) Batter should be relaxed, but NOT runny. Should not be stiff.
• Using a teaspoon, place small spoonfuls on a SILPAT covered sheet pan. (if you don't have Silpats, use parchment paper, but this works best with Silpats.) Place them well apart, at least 2 inches. On my large pans, I usually place 8 spoonfuls.
• Place on middle rack in preheated 350°F oven. Set timer for 6 minutes.
• Rotate pan after 6 mins, then set timer for 1 minute, and check again. Repeat until the edges of each lacy cookie are starting to turn a nice caramel brown, maybe no more than a quarter of an inch in, no more. I usually end up doing no more than 2 minutes. ---Do. Not. Overbake!---.
• Remove from oven. Put your next prepared cookie sheet into the oven and set the timer.
• Let this first sheet cool 2 minutes Then, lift entire Silpat with cookies on it off the first cookie sheet and place on cooling rack. In a few minutes you can remove them from the rack and place in your container.
• Set the hot cookie sheet somewhere to cool off quickly. When you portion out your next batch of cookies, you don't want to be working with a hot cookie sheet.
• Lather, Rinse, Repeat until you have used up all the dough.
• NOTE: as the dough sits, the cookies may not expand into the lacy goodies they usually spread into, as the flour and oats absorb the moisture. This may be great if you want a little thicker cookie. However, if you want to maintain the crispy laciness, add a tiny teaspoonful of water to the dough, mixing very well, before portioning it out again.
• Also, everyone's oven is different. Watch your first batches to fine-tune the temp and timing.
• This recipe makes about 30 or more cookies, depending on your portion size.
• Enjoy!

AUNT EVA'S SWEDISH STROGANOFF

Steps:

• Melt dripping in a pan that is large and heavy enough to hold at least 6 quarts of liquid and meat at a simmer for 4 hours.
• When dripping is at a "sizzle", add the cubed beef in small enough batches to thoroughly brown the cubes. Remove as soon as they start to "bleed-out.".
• When all beef is browned, add onion, stirring well until translucent but not too soft.
• Reduce heat to medium low and return the beef to the pot when your pan has cooled a bit. (Keep stirring while the pan cools, or just take the onions out.).
• Sprinkle flour over the cubes and stir well, scraping the bottom of the pot, until the flour is well-distributed.
• With heat still at medium low, return onions, if you removed them earlier.
• Gradually add the liquid, stirring and scraping the pot all the time to incorporate everything together.
• Turn heat up to med-high and bring contents to a slow boil.
• Reduce heat to simmer, cover and simmer, checking for liquid level and stirring occasionally. Add more broth if the liquid is getting too thick. You want enough liquid to make sure your cubes get tender.
• After about 4 hours, the beef should be tender and your liquid getting harder to thin. That's a good thing. It's hard to judge just exactly what the consistency should be without some experience. Keep at it, everyone seems to end up with a stroganoff that is runny or really thick at one time or another.
• Remove the pot from the heat, allow to cool just enough that the sour cream won't break when you put it inches.
• If you aren't sure about this, put in a cereal spoonful and see if it curdles or separates into curds and whey. If it does, it's too hot.
• When the beef mixture has cooled enough, gently fold in the sour cream, stirring slowly and steady until it incorporates completely with the rest of the ingredients.
• Serve immediately with egg noodles or on rice, if you prefer.