And the recipe is… Christmas cookies! Yay!
Actually, this is a Butter-Cinnamon Cookies. Tastes a little
bit like a Danish butter cookies and the structure is a little bit like a filo
pastry (Greek influence), but, anyway, its the cookies I remember from my
Ukrainian childhood (I was born and grew up in Ukraine, western part of the country).
So, here is the recipe.
2 cups of flour
1 cup (two sticks) of butter
1 egg
1 tablespoon of vinegar
A little bit of ice-cold water (just to make dough to stick
together)
Sugar and cinnamon for dipping
Direction
1 cup (two sticks) of butter (cold, from the fridge) mіх together with 2 cups of flour.
You can use butter dough mixer; I personally don’t have this gadget (yet!) so I
chop my butter together with flour with a knife.
Crack the egg; separate yolk and white; keep white in
covered container in a fridge – for later. Slightly whip the yolk, add to the butter-dough
mixture. Also add 1 tablespoon of vinegar to the mixture, get you ice-cold
water and make your dough. It will take you few minutes if you are doing it by
hands (like me) or even less time and efforts if you use electric dough mixer.
When dough is ready, form a ball from it, wrap it in cling
or put in covered container and leave in a fridge for good 8 hours (can be up
to 12 hours).
After 8 (or more) hours are pass, time to make a cookies! First
of all, get your reserved egg white, put in a bowl and whip it with a hand
mixer or just with a fork. On a big plate, mix some sugar together with a
cinnamon. Then, roll out your dough with a rolling pin to 1 centimeter thick
(less than half inch) and cut out your cookies with a cookie cutter. Brush your
cookies with a whipped egg white and then dip wet side of them in the
sugar-cinnamon mіх. Line your
cookies on a baking sheet (the sheet don’t need to be greased), set an oven
temperature on 350, put your sheet with the cookie on a middle rack in the
oven, set a timer for 25 minutes, and – relax! In about half of this time, you
will smell Christmas on your kitchen! I mean hot dough and cinnamon aroma –
that’s what you will smell :) Not many things in the world can compete with
this smell, well, you know it :)
Okay, 25 minutes passes; cookies are done! Remove them from
the oven and sort on a cooling rack or just a wooden board – to cool down.
Bon Appetit! Or, like we, Ukrainians, say – Smachnogo!
P.S. This particular recipe I would like to dedicate to two
amazing Canadian girls – Terri Lynn and Megan - who have tried already my
cookies, loved them and asked me about the recipe. Thanks for the inspiration,
dear girls! If it’s not for you, this blog, probably, would never been started
:) I bought а domain name for the blog years ago and I kept
thinking, well, I will start my Modern Ukrainian Cooking one day… Thank you
again, Terri Lуnn and Megan –
this day is finally arrived!
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