Lenten brine cookies. Step by step recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

During the fasting period, there always comes a moment when you want something unusual and "forbidden". This is especially true for sweets or lush pastries. At these moments, housewives are looking for alternatives and successful simple recipes that would allow them to cook something sweet and tasty from the products available and allowed in the post (not of animal origin).

A real lifesaver is the brine cookie recipe. It is important that you can take any brine: from cucumbers, sauerkraut, tomatoes or s alted platter. The taste of cookies will resemble shortbread, but will be much more aromatic, tastier and lighter.

Necessary ingredients for making brine cookies

• 760 g wheat flour (about 5-6 cups).
• 180 ml vegetable oil.
• 260 ml brine (almost a full glass).
• 180g granulated sugar.
• A large pinch of s alt.
• Vanilla sugar.
• Half teaspoon baking soda.

Cooking process

Experienced housewives advise before cooking cookieson the brine, immediately weigh and put all the products in front of you. Also prepare a handy mixing bowl ahead of time.

At the first stage of cooking, liquid products are mixed: vegetable oil and brine. Then granulated sugar and vanillin are added. Sugar will not dissolve quickly in a cold base, so leave the mixture for a while. Do not save time in this moment. It is better to let the sugar dissolve than to eat cookies and "enjoy" the squeak of crystals on your teeth. If there is no time to wait, then just replace the granulated sugar with powder.

Slowly stir in the sweet butter-brine mixture. In the process of mixing, you need to gradually introduce flour. Do not forget to sift it so that the cucumber brine cookies turn out to be lighter and more airy. Add soda along with flour. The consistency and appearance of the dough should be very similar to shortbread.

Cover the dough with a plate or wrap it in a bag and let it rest for half an hour. If the shortbread must be cleaned in the cold in order to allow the butter to harden, then the brine dough does not need such a long rest. It will take 20-25 minutes to successfully preheat the oven and prepare the cookie cutters.

Forming cookies

When the brine cookie dough rests, it will expand and become fluffier. Note that this is without the addition of yeast and chicken eggs. We divide a piece of dough into two parts and roll each one into a pancake about 1 cm thick. Then it's the turn to show culinary fiction and imagination. Moldsfor cookies, you can use completely different ones. You can simply, if there is not enough time or forms are not at hand, cut the dough into squares or rhombuses.

Place the shaped cookies in brine on a baking sheet, which we cover in advance with baking paper. You can grease the paper lightly with vegetable oil or just lightly sprinkle with flour.

Baking

The oven heats up to 200 degrees. Try to arrange the cookies so that there is enough space between them. They will expand during baking. Cooking time for cucumber pickle cookies is 12-15 minutes. It is not worth frying too much, as the cookies will not become crispy and crumbly, but hard and tasteless.

How to Serve

It is important to note that many housewives are afraid to cook biscuits in brine. It seems to them that pastries will smell like cucumbers or sauerkraut. This is a complete misconception of inexperienced cooks. The cookies are not like other well-known pastries, but they do not smell like cucumbers. With tea, fruit juice or homemade compote, brine cookies (photo attached) will go well.

Tips & Tricks

If the brine used contains green leaves, cloves, etc., we advise you to strain it before adding it to the dough.

Be sure to check the brine for salinity before adding it to the dough. If the marinade that was poured over the cucumbers is too s alty, then add a smaller amount.

ServeCookies are allowed not only during Lent. It will please guests at any time of the year.

It's nice that such cookies remain soft and crispy for a very long time. The period will last even longer if the cookies are placed in a glass container with a well-closing lid.

The dough is thick enough. You shouldn't be afraid of this. It is recommended to mix it with a wooden spoon or spatula.

If you like s alty pastries more, then just reduce the amount of granulated sugar and add a little more brine. This will make the cookies s alty and taste like crackers.

Crackers will look like cookies even if you cut the dough into long thin strips when cutting. The sticks will become more fluffy when baking. After cooking, you can sprinkle them with a little s alt. S alty crispy slices are obtained, which may well replace bread or crackers.

Absolutely not spoil, but, on the contrary, will benefit, added to the dough a spoonful of ground cinnamon, ginger or cocoa. You can also add candied fruits, honey instead of sugar and nuts. It is advisable to soak dried fruits and candied fruits for 10-20 minutes before adding them to the dough.

A more he althy and low-calorie brine cookie is obtained if you replace part of the flour with regular oatmeal.

You can add sunflower seed kernels (s alted or regular) to the dough. They will make pastries not only beautiful in appearance, but also incredibly useful. In addition, kernels can replace higher calorie nuts.

Ifthe recipe does not limit fasting or diet, then you can add a little butter, condensed milk, and a couple of tablespoons of sour cream to the dough. The result is amazingly filling, incredibly sweet and delicious holiday cookies.