French saber cookies - a vivid representative of the French menu. Well, someone, and the French know everything about baking. After all, it is one of the attractions of local cuisine, but what about the cuisine, France in general! Baking is what glorifies beautiful France along with great museums and fashion houses, wines and French cuisine.
"French Bun" - is not that a notion? What is usually meant by this? Yes, of course, a baguette. The familiar baguette, which has long and firmly entered the entire menu of the world, originated in this country. What about a croissant? And profiteroles? Baking in France is made from various types of dough. Sand, puff, biscuit, as well as exclusively French species: bigne, breeze and many others - this is only a small part of them. But back to the beginning of the article and recall the saber cookies, the recipe of which will be discussed in detail. So let's get started.
French treat
Saber is made from shortcrust pastry. Which, in general, is understandable and without explanation to experts in the French language and French pastries. After all, this is also the name of the sand test itself - saber, or pate sable (Pate Sablee). Saber dough products are tender, crumbly and brittle. From it you can cook many dishes of French cuisine and not only. We’ll talk about cookies.
Recipe
Very tasty, it can be either sweet, dessert or snack, with savory, piquant, possibly spicy or salty fillers. What are the main distinguishing features of saber cookies from other types of shortbread cookies?
- Very easy to prepare.
- Cooking time is minimal.
- The recipe includes a boiled egg yolk.
- An individual way of cutting into individual products.
Dishes and appliances that you will need
You can prepare a shallow bowl to knead the dough. In this case, you will need a mixer or something replacing it, as well as a spoon or spatula for kneading thick dough.
In another way, the dough is kneaded on a table or on a large cutting board with your hands. In both cases, the result is the same. The dough will be beautiful, magnificent and soft, cookies - airy and friable.
At the next stage of cooking, you will need a cling film.
And now in order and in detail about what is French saber cookies.
Ingredients
To prepare, you will need the following:
- Butter - 150 grams.
- Powdered sugar or granulated sugar, fructose - 3 tablespoons with a hill (about 80 grams).
- Egg yolks - 2 pieces.
- Flour - 1.5 cups.
- A pinch of salt.
Product Preparation
- With the most popular method of making dough, you need to put the oil out of the refrigerator in advance. It should become melted, soft, creamy.
- Hard-boiled eggs and separate the yolks.
- Sift flour - so the dough will become more airy.
Cooking dough
As mentioned above, you can prepare the dough in one of several ways. Each of them has his followers.
The difference is solely in the process itself, and it does not affect the result:
- The first way. Grind butter and flour to a state of fine crumbs. With this method, the oil should be from the refrigerator. After sugar and egg interfere in the dough.
- The second way. Using melted butter, on the table, mixing everything with your hands. Stir the sifted flour, icing sugar and salt. Put mashed butter and egg yolks in the center recess and start mixing flour from the center, sometimes rubbing the dough with your palm on the table and again collecting in a lump. It is important not to knead the dough, otherwise the result may not be as lush and tender as expected. Therefore, the third way to prepare the dough is more popular, more convenient and therefore simple.
- The third way. It consists in the fact that first you need to mix the butter, salt and sugar in a bowl. Beat them until creamy. You can use a mixer. Then add mashed chicken yolks and add flour, stirring constantly. You will have to finish kneading the dough with your hands, because it will become quite thick.
How to fill cookies?
Shortbread cookies (a recipe for butter with powdered sugar) - this is very tasty. And without any additives. And how do you like the idea - to cook, for example, French saber cookies with olives? It will turn out a wonderful snack cocktail cookie. And not only with olives. Unleash your imagination! Here are some ideas:
- At the end of the kneading process, add the olives or olives finely chopped into thin strips.
- Cookies can be made even more “eatery” by adding sun-dried tomatoes. The rest of the dough is prepared according to the recipe. The combination of sugar and unsweetened ingredients will add special piquancy to baking.
- An interesting combination of a classic saber with the aroma of lemon and basil. To do this, add 2-3 branches of crushed basil and grated zest of one lemon on the finest grater.
- Some make a saber with lavender buds. As you can see, fantasies really have no limits.
- From sweet fantasies - a chocolate saber. For a chocolate color and flavor, add a few teaspoons of cocoa powder. You can develop imagination and make one half of the dough white, the other chocolate. To do this, after kneading the dough, divide it into two parts and add cocoa powder to only one. And then, in the process of forming cookies, you can decompose a layer of dough of one color, another on it, and roll them up. As a result, cookies will turn out with colored spirals.
- And if you add small cubes of chocolate to the finished dough, then they will remain chocolate lumps that have not merged with the dough. The combination of flavors and different consistencies will add charm to your liver.
End of preparation
When the dough becomes homogeneous, plastic and, without a doubt, ready to bake, in appearance similar to mashed clay, lay the cling film on the table and lay the finished mass in the form of sausage on it. Its diameter will be the same as you see the size of the future cookies. Wrap the dough in cling film, giving great importance to the shape (sausage), and put it in the refrigerator.
If you want to prepare a saber as quickly as possible, then you can put the workpiece in the freezer for at least twenty minutes. The butter in the dough should harden. Do not freeze the mass if you plan to cook cookies immediately.
If you use the classic recipe, preparing French shortbread saber cookies, it is better to increase the preparation time of the dough to 2-3 hours in the refrigerator.
To make the cookies round, periodically remove the workpiece from the refrigerator and roll it to maintain the shape of the sausage.
After the specified time, when the dough has hardened enough, remove it from the refrigerator, remove the film and cut it into round slices about one centimeter thick.
Bakery products
The only thing left was to bake an almost ready saber. This is done quickly, in about 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. Put cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment or greased with butter, and bake for at least 10 minutes until a slight blush or until the desired effect. Perhaps you are more likely to taste not browned, but only a slightly dried saber. So it will be softer. With an increase in baking time, cookies become crumbly.
Conclusion
That's all about French saber cookies. As you can see, it is not only tasty, but also very convenient to prepare.
Due to the fact that cookies are cut from a "sausage", there are no scraps left, which greatly simplifies and speeds up the work and does not force to knead it again, thereby spoiling the original qualities and making it not so light and airy.
The fact that the dough rolls into a “sausage” is also convenient because it can be stored in this form. It is not necessary to immediately start baking. In this form, wrapped in cling film, the dough can be stored for up to seven days. And if you freeze it - up to three months. Decide to bake cookies - take out the dough, thaw in the air or in the refrigerator, keep it a little at room temperature, cut into separate cookies and bake.