Goro

Photo Credit: Sweet Paul

Ingredients

3 Egg yolks
⅔ Cup sugar
1 Cup whipping cream
1 Tsp. cardamom
6 Cups unbleached flour
3 Cups butter, lightly salted

Recipe

Step 1

Beat together egg yolks, sugar and cream.

Step 2

Add cardamom to flour and sift half of the flour, a little at a time, into the egg mixture and mix well.

Step 3

Put the remainder of the flour on counter and place dough on top. Roll dough out to a thick flap, and spread butter in thin layers across the dough. Fold over and roll once more.

Step 4

Roll up and chill for 24 hours.

Step 5

Roll out thin. Cut a cardboard template the size of goro iron; trace and cut cookies from the pattern.

Step 6

Bake in hot, ungreased goro iron until a light golden color. Wipe fat off as it trickles out.

Step 7

Remove from iron with a spatula onto a cutting board. Cut off the frayed edges and cut apart while still hot. Cool completely. May be frozen.

Ekte Norsk Mat–Authentic Norwegian Cooking is available for purchase, through the Vesterheim bookstore.
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