A cookie recipe in which it is recommended to pass the kneaded dough through a meat grinder to give finished goods unusual view, first of all, will appeal to those who usually do not have time to cook pastries. This cookie does not take much time from the housewives and gives them the opportunity to eat regularly delicious cookies and to please their family members and especially children. After all, it's no secret that fresh homemade cakes are much tastier than store-bought cookies.
Ingredients
- sugar - 1 glass;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
- soda quenched with vinegar or lemon juice- half a teaspoon;
- margarine - 250 gr;
- flour - 3 cups.
Cooking
- Soften margarine, place it in a bowl, add sugar and grind with a fork, and even better - with a mixer.
- Add eggs to the resulting mass and mix with a whisk or food processor until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
- Sift flour into the same bowl through a special sieve, add soda and knead a stiff dough. Despite the fact that the dough turns out to be greasy, it should not stick to the bowl and hands.
- To make the dough easier to pass through a meat grinder, it is recommended to place it in the refrigerator for an hour, but if there is not enough time, you can continue the process without it. However, many housewives claim that from dough aged in the refrigerator, cookies are more crumbly and tasty.
- Scroll the dough through the large grate of the meat grinder, after removing the knife from it. You can also use a special nozzle, which is equipped with some models of meat grinders. Divide the snakes coming out of the meat grinder into several parts of arbitrary size at the rate of three snakes for each cookie. You can twist the snakes into bundles, make roses out of them, weave braids or form cookies in any other way, guided by your own imagination (for example, put the snakes on a baking sheet directly from the meat grinder and lay the dough in the form of turrets or pyramids).
- Put the formed cookies on a baking sheet, previously greased with any fat. Leave some space between the cookies so they don't stick together as they grow. Place the baking sheet in an oven heated to 190 degrees for 20 minutes. The cookies are ready when the top is golden.
Cookie dough with cottage cheese
For families who are very fond of dairy products, the variant of cookies is more suitable, the dough for which is also scrolled through a meat grinder, but it includes cottage cheese.
Ingredients
- not too fat cottage cheese - 0.5 kg;
- margarine or butter - 400 gr;
- flour - 3 cups;
- slaked soda, salt - to taste.
Cooking
- Knead all the ingredients into a soft but not sticky dough.
- Keep the dough for half an hour in the refrigerator, scroll through a meat grinder and form cookies.
- Arrange cookies on a baking sheet previously greased with oil.
- Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for half an hour.
- Remove the baking sheet, sprinkle the finished cookies with sugar and leave in the oven for a few more minutes.
- if margarine is frozen before kneading the dough, and then grated on a grater, on which carrots are usually rubbed, then it will be easier to rub it with sugar;
- It is very important to ensure that the dough has the right consistency: in no case should it become elastic, but at the same time it must be soft enough. Perfectly kneaded dough is like plasticine, already kneaded and warmed up in the hands;
- if the dough sticks too much to the hands, then it will stick to the walls of the meat grinder, so it is recommended to add a little more flour to it and knead well;
- in case the dough has become too steep, you can slightly dilute it with sour cream, kefir or mayonnaise;
- if margarine for dough preparation is replaced with butter, then while adding soda to the dough, you should also add a pinch of salt to it, since margarine is usually already salted, so the dough with butter may turn out to be too bland;
- If the dough is kneaded by hand, it is important to knead it gently. It is best to fold it several times in the form of an “envelope” and knead it, but just do not knead it strongly, like dough for noodles, but lightly press it with your hands so that it does not become loose and does not begin to delaminate during baking;
- if desired, chopped nuts, sesame seeds, raisins, dried apricots, almonds, cinnamon can be added to the dough, coconut flakes, poppy or vanilla sugar. It should be remembered that poppy seeds are first boiled before being added to the dough, and then the water is carefully squeezed out. Sometimes, before baking, the surface of the cookies is smeared with egg to make the cookies look more impressive;
- before placing the dough in the refrigerator, it is recommended to wrap it in cling film;
- if snake sticks stick together at the exit from the meat grinder, you can disassemble them by lightly rolling them in flour. If they stick together too much, then you can not form cookies from snakes, but put half of them on a baking sheet in an even layer, crush them a little with your hands so that there are as few holes as possible, grease with thick jam or other stuffing, and cover the top with the second half of the snakes. After baking, the resulting layer is cut into individual cookies. This option is great for lazy or too busy housewives and can help out in the event of an unexpected arrival of guests;
- cooled, ready-made cookies can be made even tastier: they go well with powdered sugar, jam or chocolate icing;
- if the store did not happen to be powdered sugar, it can be prepared independently by grinding sugar on a conventional coffee grinder;
- To make the cookies easier to remove, you can line the baking sheet with oiled parchment paper for baking, but this is more true for old baking sheets with a slightly scratched surface. Usually, the usual lubrication of the baking sheet with vegetable or butter or margarine is enough;
- sometimes the meat grinder is placed so that it is convenient to spread the dough directly on the baking sheet. To make it easier to form cookies on a baking sheet, you will need oiled parchment. In a family where there are children of preschool and primary school age, you can involve them in the creative process and lay out a whole picture on a baking sheet, which is then baked right in its entirety;
- if filled cookies are more preferred in the house, you can make a recess in the top of the cookies before baking and add the chosen filling there.
It turns out very tasty cookies from dough passed through a meat grinder, with a filling of lemon scrolled in a meat grinder and rubbed with sugar. You can also make a filling of sour apples, cut into strips and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar.
- But the filling does not have to be sour, not only lemon jam is suitable, but also any sweet jam or even cream.
Cookies made from dough rolled through a meat grinder are ideal for a treat served with tea or coffee. It can be served for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. It looks great on holiday table and often helps out if guests unexpectedly appear in the house. Delicious crumbly cookies are usually liked by everyone without exception. Cookies molded in the form of chrysanthemums look especially impressive if you set the table with napkins in the form of these flowers or place a bouquet of live chrysanthemums in the center of the table.
Let's cook a simple, but at the same time very tasty shortbread"Through the meat grinder." We will need a manual meat grinder and a special nozzle for cookies. Cookies “Through a meat grinder”, in terms of taste, will not be inferior to store-bought, and its shape will be original.
Recipe for shortbread cookies "Through a meat grinder" on margarine
Dish: Pastries
Cooking time: 1 hour
Total time: 1 hour
Ingredients
- 600 g wheat flour
- 250 g margarine
- 200 g sugar
- 2 pcs. chicken egg
- 10 g baking soda
Step by step recipe with photo
How to cook:
1. To prepare shortcrust pastry, take a container of the required volume. Eggs should be beaten into it and sugar should be poured in full.
2. Using a mixer, mix sugar and eggs. We get a homogeneous egg-sugar mass.
3. Pour all the flour into this mass. Cut margarine into pieces and also add to the container with the rest of the products. We extinguish the soda with vinegar and carefully add to the mass.
4. Knead the dough with your hands. We get a dense shortbread dough.
5. The dough is ready and you can start the process of forming cookies. To do this, install a meat grinder, fix it. We put on a meat grinder a special template for making molded cookies. We put the prepared dough into the meat grinder and get the cookies of the desired shape and size.
6. Put the shaped dough obtained through a meat grinder on a baking sheet, which is pre-oiled. We leave a distance of 1 cm between the cookies. This is necessary so that the cookies do not stick to each other during the baking process.
7. We install a baking sheet with cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. We bake shortbread cookies until a light blush is formed. This process will take approximately 15 minutes.
The cookies should be removed from the oven and removed from the baking sheet. Let the cookies cool down before using. Cooked shortbread "Through a meat grinder" has a pleasant aroma and goes well with tea.
We love to enjoy this wonderful cookie with tea. It turns out dryish, but depending on what pieces you bake it and for how long. See below...
Now let's prepare all the ingredients, it is better to take margarine (or butter) from the freezer, so that it would be easier to grate it ...
Pour into a large bowl (I took a bowl of 3 liters) 2 cups of flour
We take margarine (or butter) from the freezer and three it on a coarse grater, periodically sprinkling the grater with the remaining flour so that the margarine does not stick to the grater.
We beat 3 eggs
Pour sugar
Add vanillin
Extinguish 1 teaspoon of vinegar
And mix everything well until smooth.
We knead the dough well. It should turn out cool. The dough is well kneaded without flour, as it is fatty and does not stick to the table when kneading. Wrap the dough in a film or just a bag and put in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes.
In the meantime, while our dough is cooling, we will prepare a meat grinder and a baking sheet, which we will sprinkle with a little flour (although you can not do this), the dough should not stick to the baking sheet anyway. We remove the knife from the meat grinder - it is superfluous there, you can take a larger or smaller mesh - as you like. We used to have special records that made cookies different forms I don't know if there are records like this on sale now...
We take our dough and divide it into pieces that will fit well into the meat grinder. You can immediately divide the dough into such pieces, and then put it in the refrigerator - so the dough will cool faster.
We twist the dough in a meat grinder and form cookies in the shape you like best.
You can simply lay the twisted dough on a baking sheet, or you can twist it or wrap it in a ball.
The smaller the pieces and the longer these cookies are baked, the drier they will be. If the pieces are larger and bake for a short time, the cookies inside are soft. In general, you can bake it the way you like - either drier or softer (it turns out delicious in both versions).
We put the baking sheet with cookies in the oven at 180-200 degrees.
