Bóndakökur

Icelandic oatmeal cookies

A recipe that many Icelanders have associated with Christmas baking since childhood are these cookies here - bóndakökur . Unfortunately, it is not reliably known where these delicious Icelandic oatmeal cookies get their name from. The word "bóndi" usually means "farmer", but sometimes also "husband" and "húsbóndi" simply means "master of the house". The cookies are definitely delicious!

Ingredients

150 g flour

400 g oat flakes

1/2 tsp baking soda

120 g butter

100 g brown sugar

1 - 2 eggs

Preparation

Place all ingredients in a large bowl and knead thoroughly.

Then shape the dough into rolls and cut off 1 cm thick slices with a knife.

With moistened hands, roll the individual slices into balls...

...place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and gently flatten slightly with a fork.

Bake in the middle of the oven in a preheated oven at 400 °F (200 °C) for about 10 minutes until the cookies are nice and golden brown.

This recipe is part of the #julbak2020 campaign from mahtava.de

This little guy pictured here is the Skyrgrámur, the Skyr Greedy Maw - one of the 13 Icelandic Christmas companions.

By the way, the Icelandic Christmas companions are troll brothers. They come down from the mountains near Dimmuborgir to people's farms and homes in the 13 nights before Christmas. One brother after the other descends from December 12th and causes mischief and mischief among people. And the Icelandic Christmas cat, the Jólaköttur, is also out and about and ambushes people when they are out in the dark and snow...

[Translated from here.]