munn cookies!

munn cookies!

if you don't have a jewish background, chances are the word 'munn' means nothing to you, and just sounds like something aesthetically displeasing. i, however, come from a partially-jewish background, and so i am lucky enough to know better. munn is basically anything with poppy seeds. i know that they don't sound fun and dessert-like, but they are. and when i dream of lemon poppy seed cookies, jewish-style munn cookies are what comes to mind.

i found this recipe on the internet, and made them as a gift for my jewish aunt, because these are her very favorite cookies in the world. and, even though this was my first time baking these, i have to agree - thin, compact, laden with poppy seeds, more like shortbread then a cookie - these are what you want. i would make these again in a second. good job allrecipes.com!

here we have the dry ingredients, including flour and poppy seeds...

and here we have some wet ingredients mixing with egg. yellow!

and, a big ball of dough. this ball of dough was then rolled out, and circular cookies were cut from it using the open end of a glass. there were no pictures of this stage, because my hands were very dirty. the end.

here they are about to go into the oven...

and here they are coming out...

not much of a difference, except they are slightly browned from the egg white wash and sugar topping. these are very good, and should be in everyone's politically-correct holiday cookie repertoire. go make them now.