The traditions of evening tea drinking in Russia are already several hundred years old. And every time the table is laid festively. A beautiful tablecloth, pot-bellied samovar and many different sweets and pastries, including cookies with cinnamon. The recipe for its preparation is simple, and the product is not only tasty and fragrant, but also useful. Cinnamon improves digestion, has a warming effect and normalizes blood pressure. So many useful properties in a delicious treat. Each housewife's cookbook should have at least one recipe describing cinnamon cookies.
To make shortbread cookies with cinnamon, you will need three hundred grams of flour, one hundred grams of margarine, one hundred grams of granulated sugar for dough and a little for sprinkling, an egg, a spoonful of cinnamon, a third of a teaspoon of soda and a little lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, vanillin. Beat the egg and sugar in a froth. Melt the margarine in the microwave or in the bath and add to the egg foam. We extinguish soda with apple cider vinegar and add to the mixture. Pour the sifted flour and knead a homogeneous shortcrust pastry. It turns out sticky, so we wrap it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour for cooling.
A piece of the finished dough is rolled into a layer no thicker than 0.7 centimeters. Sprinkle with ground cinnamon and sugar, with the addition of vanilla. Roll the dough into a roll and cut into portioned rings 1 cm thick. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. We spread sand curls, leaving a small space between them. Bake in the oven with medium heat for about 15 minutes. Cookies should be golden. Let the cookies cool, and remove from the pan, laying in a beautiful vase.
Consider the following recipe for making cinnamon cookies. This time you will need a glass of flour, an egg, one hundred grams of margarine or butter, 1 glass of granulated sugar, four tablespoons of condensed milk, a tablespoon of ground cinnamon, a teaspoon of hydrated soda with lemon juice or half a bag of baking powder. We mix homogeneous and elastic dough from all components. Wrap it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Roll out the chilled dough with a thickness of not more than 1 centimeter. Cookies are cut using curly molds or a corrugated baking knife. On baking sheet covered with baking paper or food foil, lay out the cookie blanks and bake outside the highly heated oven until fully cooked. Sprinkle the finished baked goods with powdered sugar mixed with ground cinnamon and spread in a vase.
A delicious cookie is obtained by adding not only cinnamon, but also ginger and oriental spices. Such a delicacy can give pleasure and warm on a chilly evening. Perfect for a winter evening tea party. To make such a delicious baking, you will need two glasses of flour, 1 glass of sugar, vanilla, one hundred grams of margarine, an egg, a bag of baking powder, a tablespoon of ginger, a teaspoon of cinnamon, two tablespoons of a mixture of ground cloves, cardamom, nutmeg.
From all components we knead an elastic and uniform dough. We leave it in the refrigerator for half an hour. We roll a piece of the finished dough on a powder-dusted table into a layer, the thickness of which is no more than 0.5 centimeters. Cut out cookies of arbitrary shape. We cover the baking sheet with baking paper or food foil and lay out the cookie blanks. Bake until golden brown. It is necessary to remove the cookies on time, otherwise it will become hard. Store such baked goods only under a lid or eat hot. Only in this way does it remain soft. When cooled, cookies do not become less tasty. It can be prepared in reserve and stored in a closed cookie jar for up to three weeks.