Goro Guru Turns Eight

Whip an egg light
and fluffy.
Add 6 Tbsp of sugar.
Grate half a lemon.
Stir into egg mixture.
Add 1 Tbsp of cognac.
Mix in 1/2 tsp of cardamom.
Beat 6 Tbsp of
whipping cream stiff.
Add to egg mixture.
Melt one heaping
cup of butter.
Mix two cups flour with
4 Tbsp corn starch.


Add alternately to egg mixture, the melted butter and dry ingredients. The dough should be quite thin. Cover well. Refrigerate overnight or until a butter knife stands straight up in the dough.

Cut a wax paper pattern the exact size
of the goro iron.
Roll out the dough on a board sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Lay pattern on top and cut to size.
Put cakes on a hot iron.
Squeeze shut.
Bake both sides
on the stove top.
The finished cakes
should be a
delicate pale yellow.


Remove
from
iron.


Separate

cakes and

trim edges

while cakes

are warm.


Cool.

Stack.

Taste
the
imperfections.

Mmmm...

A fancy Norwegian
shortbread.


Offer
the
best
to
guests

celebrating
the
eighth
birthday

of
a
Goro
Guru.