Heavy Duty Oreshki Oreshnitsa 16 Nuts with Non-Stick Coating - Cookie Mold Oreshek Cake - Metal Mold Form for Sweet Russian Nuts

Looks fine. Didn’t use it yet.

So it’s heavy duty, excellent quality, a unique thing. But it is absolutely covered in some sort of oil/lube. It smells like a shop, and leaves my hands smelling like I was handling mechanics tools. I wiped it down but it didn’t seem to help.

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I saw this cookie mold I thought it was a great idea. I love to bake but as my arthritis goes through my body I can do less and less. For Thanksgiving I made a simple dish to share and making it wiped me out. I realized that this more complicated way of making these cookies would completely wipe me out. So I sent it home with my cleaning ladies to see if she and her daughters could make the cookies. On her next cleaning day, she brought me a dozen of the cookies. The tast was okay and I liked the Nutella [search Amazon for ASIN B0005Z6ZK4] in the middle. This mold did not come with any recipes or instructions for which they lost a star. There were many different cookie recipes and they called for different items to fill the middle with. I liked the Nutella in the middle and realized it would be a good item to go with other cookies like thumbprint cookies. I thought the cookie recipe for the mold, which I don't know which she used, but it seemed like it would also make a nice cookie on its own. This cookie is a type that you would make when you have plenty of time to do so and you want something special. They did get a few that were a bit burned. When I started thinking about the cookie molds and all the other types that I saw, such as pizelle makers, it dawned on me that only about a century and a half ago most women didn't have nice, fancy stoves with ovens. Many cooks only had an open fireplaces, or wood/coal burning stoves to cook and bake with. I suspect that is why these cooky molds were designed and would work in the more primitive ways to bake. Then as we got stoves that we could do all sorts of cooking and baking on these types of molds fell into disfavor. Now as specialized cooking and baking has come back into favor, these older types of baking molds have also come back into favor. I appreciate the opportunity to try out this mold. Thank you.