Tag: peppernuts

  • Oma’s Peppernuts

    Oma’s Peppernuts

    This recipe for Pfeffernusse (peppernuts) is from my Oma (grandmother) Maria (Wiebe) Kroeger and my mother Helen. (See more at “Family tradition goes back 500 years.”) Ingredients 2 cups butter or margarine 2 cups white sugar 2 cups Rogers Golden syrup 1 tsp ginger 2 tsp star anise or aniseed 1 tsp mace 1 tsp…

  • Family tradition goes back 500 years

    Family tradition goes back 500 years

    “Pfeffernusse,” Dora repeated after me in amazement! She couldn’t believe that my Christmas treats were the same as hers. It was Nov. 7, 2002, and we were sitting around the pool at Toddy’s Backpacker Hostel in Alice Springs, Australia. Nostalgia crept among us; we had wandered far and wouldn’t be home for Christmas. At the…