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<!-- Transcribed from an original family recipe card for the Trillium University Cookbook. -->

<recipe>
	<title>Fattigman</title>
	<cook>Marie Olsen</cook>
	<category>Cookies</category>
	<description></description>
	<prep_time></prep_time>
	<illustration href="../../images/recipes/fattigman-family-card.jpg" />
	<ingredients>
		<item>12 egg yolks</item>
		<item>12 tablespoons sugar</item>
		<item>12 tablespoons cream, whipped</item>
		<item>1 teaspoon cardamom</item>
		<item>2 egg whites, reserved</item>
		<item>6 ounces brandy (whiskey)</item>
		<item>A little flour, plus flour for rolling</item>
	</ingredients>
	<directions>
		<step>Beat the egg yolks and sugar until thick.</step>
		<step>Fold in the whipped cream and the 2 reserved egg whites.</step>
		<step>Add the brandy (or whiskey) and a little flour.</step>
		<step>Refrigerate, then use as little flour as needed to roll the dough.</step>
		<step>Roll very thin and cut out in diamond shapes with a wavey edge cutter. Place an addition cut in the middle and optionally pull one corner through it.</step>
		<step>Fry in grease untill light brown.</step>
	</directions>
	<yield>Never enough.</yield>
	<comment>The handwritten card is headed 'Fatty man.' It is my handwritten transcription of my grandmother telling me how to make Fattigman as a child before knowing how to correctly spell it and thinking it hadd something to do with getting fat from eating them. All measurements are approximate as gramdmother never measured anything.</comment>
</recipe>