Berliner Brot

Ingredients:

• 1 pound sugar dissolved in 1 cut warm water
• 1 pound flour
• ½ pound peeled almonds cut length-wise
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• ¼ package baking powder (~ ½ teaspoon?)

Mix everything together, spread onto a buttered cookie sheet (with sides) using a knife, depth of roughly ½ cm. Bake at 325 degrees. When done baking, immediately brush with cold water and cut (otherwise gets too hard later).

(Alternative version listed - ¼ lb cocoa, 400g sugar, 100g butter, 3 eggs, 200g peeled almonds, ½ teaspoon ground cloves, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, pinch pepper, 300g flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder)