If you're wondering where I am these days, I'm basically hooked to the screen all day, rewinding, editing, and fitting.
Swapped over the pot with a keyboard and the spoon for a mouse. I'm absolutely going to prepare something, but it'll be more for looking at than eating.
Luckily, I have something for you that I haven't shared yet, and it was on the Easter menu.
Machine biscuits marked my childhood as well as galettes from a cast mold, mom always made a lot because the dough itself is not complicated to make, at the same time you can play with flavors and combinations endlessly. And let's not lie, we constantly asked her for sweets, so it is quite justified that she mostly looked for recipes that would satisfy our "demands".
The trick is that to make these biscuits you need a manual meat grinder and a mold that contains about 5 forms for biscuits.
Almost like in Charlie's chocolate factory.:P
The machine is terribly difficult to assemble, disassemble and wash - maybe that's just another reason why mom preferred quantity when it comes to them.
On the table next to the other deacons, I wanted them too as I decided to treat myself a bit on holidays :p but the mold we had didn't fit on the machine, until my mother-in-law fixed it after many, many days of me nagging. :D
You won't need too many ingredients to make the dough, the charm actually lies in their shape, but if you don't have this cookie cutter, that doesn't mean you won't make them, shape them as you wish!
250 g of lard
250 g of sugar
about 800 g of flour
3 eggs
1 baking powder
2 vanilla sugars, grated lemon zest.
(if you use margarine instead of lard, reduce the amount of flour)
Put everything together in a bowl and dive your hands in. Kneading will last, dough will crumble in the begging until lard starts warming up, just keep kneading till you get nice shiny dough ball.
The plan was to add lemon and coconut (a real summer mix of flavors) to one part of the dough, and grated dark chocolate to the other.
Apart from the fact that I may have left the chocolate too close to the hot stove and it melted completely, it will certainly not be grated.
Shall I mix it with the dough?
Why not, 100 g of melted chocolate added, nicely kneaded and ready to be shaped.
As I mentioned, the machine is a bit complicated and has so many parts (only one lost can spoil the usability), dough goes in this opening above and with the help of the handle I turn, the spiral knife inside turns and pushes the dough to the exit.
First one squeezed and shaped out!
Reason why I love this biscuit so much is, among other things, the store bought version - there was simply something in the taste of that low budget sweet.
This form is the most similar to the purchased version, which is additionally covered with chocolate.
And tea rings? Are there any fans?
Combo with lemon and coconut are tea rings shaped, just for the sake of difference. Placed on parchment paper, baked on 200c - not more than 15 minutes.
(it was already dark)
Chocolate flavor fitted quite in atmosphere, but didn't last for long.
All votes went to them, accidentally melted chocolate combo won!
