Okay -- what I'm looking for is a cross between a cracker and a cookie -- yeah, just like a digestive biscuit sort of is. The ones I had were round and flat -- about 1/8th of an inch thick as I remember them. (Well, maybe closer to a pica -- I AM a typographer, after all.) Cracker-like or crisp cookie. But melt-in-the-mouth.

I'm definitely going to give the Pepper Biscuits above a shot -- even if they aren't exactly what I'm looking for, they sound really good.

I googled and googled in a bunch of different ways -- searched Epicurious and a few other sites. Got to specifiy black pepper otherwise all kinds of stuff made with various hot sauces come up. Once, when searching for sherry (and black pepper) got a whole bunch of recipes submitted by someone named Sherry. Sigh. 'Mudge spent a few hours searching, too.

My suspicion is that in the above recipe the cookies flatten out while baking. The ones I remember looked like they had been rolled out thin and then cut with a cookie cutter. I'll try that recipe anyway, though. I don't think I'll have any time until the weekend, unfortunately.

Thanks for all the help!

Linn