An ammonia cookie is a
cookie
A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, n ...
made with
baking ammonia as a
leavener.
In the United States, they are most closely associated with
Scandinavian-American
Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans (estimate: 1,453,897), Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans (estimate: 653,222), Greenlandic Americans, Icelandic Americans (es ...
cooking.
[ It is also found in Polish cooking, where it is known as '.
]
References
Ammonia
Cookies
American desserts
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