The Latin phrase in the title that first appeared in the Book of Job and everyday language took over it from the Bible is the attributive and also the name of our today cookie at the same time. The word-for-word English translation of non plus ultra is nothing further beyond, figuratively it means something unsurpassable, second to none.  Of course, there is no question that this cookie doesn’t embody the non plus ultra for everyone, but it’s a fact that there is no other food known by that name.

Its recipe was first published in the most popular Hungarian cookbook of the 20th century written by Ilona Horváth in 1955. The target audience of her cookbook was the group of those women who worked and managed the household, as well and who had less time to cook, but wanted to prepare modern and nutritious dishes.  Among the popular dishes you can find several specialties, one of them is Non plus ultra, a typical cookie of the period wedding dessert repertoire.

Making the cookies requires some manual skill, bit it’s far from difficult. The dough is similar to linzer, but the disks are topped with sweet whisked egg whites, which complement the slighlty sour taste of the apricot jam perfectly.