St. Hildegard's Cookies of Joy
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  • Number of Servings: 30
Ingredients
3/4 cup butter or margarine (1 1/2 sticks)1 cup brown sugar1 egg1 tsp baking powder1/4 tsp salt1 1/2 cups flour1 tsp ground cinnamon1 tsp ground nutmeg1/2 tsp ground cloves
Directions
Let butter soften and then cream it with the brown sugar. Beat in the egg. Sift the dry ingredients. Add half the dry ingredients and mix. Add the other half and mix thoroughly. Dough may be chilled to make it workable. Heat oven to 350°. Form walnut sized balls of dough, place on greased and floured cookie sheet and press flat. Bake 12-15 minutes (till edges of are golden brown.)

Cool for 5 minutes, remove from cookie sheet and finish cooling on racks.

Number of Servings: 30.0

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user SNOGUM.
Servings Per Recipe: 30
Nutritional Info Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 107.7
  • Total Fat: 5.6 g
  • Cholesterol: 22.3 mg
  • Sodium: 47.4 mg
  • Total Carbs: 13.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 0.3 g
  • Protein: 1.0 g

Member Reviews
  • CD4033790
     Wonderful! Six of us finished off the enitre recipe in not much more than half an hour. I'll definitely be making this again and again and again. - 2/3/09
  • DAVIDDFRIEDMAN
     Hildegard's recipe:"Take some nutmeg and an equal weight of cinnamon and a bit of cloves, and pulverise them. Then make small cakes with this and fine whole wheat flour and water."

    No baking powder, sugar, eggs or butter.

    As you can see, the claim that these are her cookies is bogus. - 10/7/10
  • CD6312736
     I love recipes with a history behind them, and I also have a fond regard for Hildegard of Bingen. I'll have to make these when I teach about her in Sunday School. - 2/17/10
  • BUDDIES4LIFE
     really yummy nice spicy taste, great with coffee! - 2/27/09
  • HELANEHILWA
     looks great!! I'm going to try this recipe - 12/28/08
  • VALERIEMAHA
     Exceptional & subtle taste and texture! I made a few changes based upon what I had on-hand -- butter, all whole grain flour (whole wheat and oat), evaporated cane juice crystals (e.g., Sucanat), & substituted cardamom for the nutmeg. I also ground up 1/2 cup of walnuts & added to the mixture. - 12/26/08
  • GOFORGIN
     Ok - 6/24/21
  • EVILCECIL
     interesting - 6/24/21
  • CHERYLHURT
     Thanks - 5/24/21
  • KITTYHAWK1949
     really great cookies. better freeze some or you'll eat them all - 5/4/21
  • PWILLOW1
     Easy recipe. Didn't need a lot of ingredients. tasty too. - 4/11/21
  • CD1987279
     tasty - 4/5/21
  • LILLYLEFEY
     I'm going to have to try these...
    - 3/23/21
  • MNABOY
     Almost a snickerdoodle! - 3/15/21
  • RO2BENT
     Delicious. Portion control. - 2/24/21
  • ZRIE014
     tasty - 11/21/20
  • RAPUNZEL53
     Lovely - 11/21/20
  • GEORGE815
     Nice recipe - 11/21/20
  • NASFKAB
     Great idea. - 11/25/19
  • 1CRAZYDOG
     Delicious. My Grandmother made a similar cookie. Thanks! - 11/23/19
  • 1HAPPYSPIRIT
     Very tasty! - 4/13/19
  • GPARKER63
     Dear DavidDFriedman.....we're also not using an open fire and cast iron block to make them anymore. I'm pretty sure St. Hildegard would've approved this evolved recipe. She was always open to reforms and new insights 😉 I come from the region of Bingen and we've made them like this for years. - 12/13/16
  • CFELONG
     I agree with HookedOnTravel that the sugar is excessive. Also, not good as an antidepressant as Potatoes Not Prozac would point out. - 11/1/14
  • HOOKTONTRAVEL
     I'm not sure how hildegard would have had access to sugar in this quantitiy in the 1100's, but these sound like delicious cookies nonetheless! I'll have to do some research on Hildegard. - 3/11/13
  • SLIMFIFTY
     A perfect soft spice cookie! - 4/20/11



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