Fattigman

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 5 egg yolks
• 5 tablespoons sugar
• 5 tablespoons cream
• 1 tablespoon cognac
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon cardamom
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 beat together egg yolks and sugar.
• 2 whisk in cream.
• 3 stir in cognac and spices.
• 4 beat egg until it's stiff and carefully stir into other ingredients.
• 5 mix in a little more than half of the flour.
• 6 let dough stand, covered and in a cool place, overnight.
• 7 use the remaining flour (as little as possible) for rolling out the dough; the less flour you use, the more tender the fattigman will be.
• 8 roll the dough out a little at a time and as thinly as possible.
• 9 use a fattigmann cutter to cut out diamond shapes.
• 10 make a small diagonal cut in the center of each diamond, and "thread" one point of the diamond through the cut.
• 11 heat lard to 350º f.
• 12 fry fattigman until golden brown.
• 13 you must flip the fattigman to brown both sides.
• 14 a chop sticks works great for this.
• 15 drain on paper towels.
• 16 best when 2 people work on these, one cutting/flipping and the other flipping in the hot oil.