Kurabie: recipe and legend

Kurabe, a recipe of which many of us have known since childhood, is a biscuit with a complicated history. Several eastern legends merged in it at once. Now from the East in this cookie there were only spicy notes, which are achieved by adding spices to the dough. During the Soviet period, the shops often sold commercially manufactured goods. The recipe for a cookie, similar to that, is given in the book of Robert Kengis. It is quite simple, and therefore accessible even to a child.

Courage. Recipe

Delicious and friable cookies - a version of sand, only it is prepared with the addition of egg whites. They are needed in order that you can make a domestic chicken traditional shape - starry and with a drop of jam in the middle. Without proteins it will turn out to be too friable and will not hold well. The dough can be made according to a traditional recipe - one hundred grams of butter, half less of powdered sugar, a two-hundred-pound glass of flour and vanilla. Only now, instead of one egg, take one protein. Grind soft butter with sugar powder, add warm protein, vanilla and flour. Stir without much effort. It should be remembered that the shortbread cookie becomes dense from intensive processing and loses such airiness we need. The Baku Kursk is not an exception. The dough should be placed in the cornet (it can be made from the package itself, only cut the corner not straight, but with an asterisk) and squeeze a small biscuit onto the baking tray. In the middle of each you will get a small depression. It can be filled with a nut, dried fruit (paying tribute to the eastern origin of this sweetness) or simply a thick jam. If you only have liquid, add a little starch to it for the desired consistency. So the middle will thicken faster. Bake at the highest temperature for thirteen minutes. After extraction from the oven, the jam will still be liquid - it thickens after cooling.

History of the Kurabe

The legend tells that one day a chef who served at the court of the rich sultan had to cook his favorite oriental sweets to please his master. But, as luck would have it, the palace did not have the right ingredients - an abundance of dried fruits, butter and nuts. Then the resourceful cook created cookies from simple components: flour, sugar, a little oil and one protein. So it turned out the kurab. The recipe for this obscure cook contained a little more saffron - it gave the bake a light golden hue, instead of the usual pallor of a short dough. Today everyone, experimenting in his kitchen, can replace this spice (which, being natural, is not cheap) is of any kind to your taste: cardamom, cinnamon, ground ginger and even chili. The last component should be used with caution, but it can give very exotic notes to your baking. You can also mix all the spices - you will get something like a gingerbread mixture for Christmas baking. This fragrance in your kitchen will be very welcome in the run-up to the New Year. However, in the rest of the time you can pamper your home with original taste of the kurab.