Gingerbread cookies are baked from a special dough with spices, honey, nuts, and jam. The name of this confectionery itself indicates that various spices are necessarily added to it. Properly made and beautifully decorated with glaze, home-made gingerbreads often outperform store-bought ones in taste and appearance.
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Tula gingerbread cookies. Dough: - a glass of sugar; - 2 eggs; - 125 g margarine; - 3 tablespoons of honey; - 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon; - 1 teaspoon of soda; - 2.5 cups flour. Filling: - 1 glass of jam. Glaze: - 5 tablespoons of sugar; - 2 tablespoons of milk. Honey gingerbread cookies: - 500 g of honey; - 450 g flour; - 100 g of crushed walnuts; - 200 g of ground almonds; - 100 g crushed hazelnuts; - ½ teaspoon cardamom; - 1.5 teaspoons ground cloves; - 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; - 100 g of small candied fruit; - 15 g of ammonium carbonate; - 4 tablespoons of rum; - 1 egg; - 3 tablespoons of apricot confiture; - 200 g of dark chocolate.
Instruction manual
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Tula and Vyazma gingerbread cookies have long become a symbol of Russian baking. To prepare these fragrant soft gingerbread cookies, mix eggs, sugar, honey and cinnamon in a bowl. Then add softened margarine, mix and place for 15 minutes in a water bath. Stir the mixture periodically until smooth and airy.
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Remove the mass from the bath, add a glass of sifted flour, mix thoroughly and cool. Gradually add the rest of the flour to the cooled dough. First stir the dough with a fork, then with your hands. Do not add flour to the hot dough, otherwise it will turn out too tight.
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Sprinkle the tabletop with flour. Roll the dough on it into a layer of 0.5 cm thick and cut into 9 squares. Put jam on one half of each square, then cover it with the second half. Use your fingers to press the dough on the sides.
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Dip the fork in the flour and press the cloves around the perimeter of the rectangles to make the edges curly. Put the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake in a preheated oven for 12 minutes at 180 ° C.
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Cook the icing. To do this, put sugar and milk on the fire and stir until sugar is dissolved. Bring the mass to a boil and boil for 5 minutes. Lubricate the gingerbread cookies with icing while they are hot.
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To prepare honey gingerbread by heating, bring honey to a liquid state. Cool the mass and mix with the egg. Preheat the oven to 175 ° C.
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Mix flour with chopped nuts, candied fruit, spices. Dissolve ammonium in rum. Combine flour, ammonium, and honey mixed with nuts and fruits. Mash the dough thoroughly, wrap it in plastic wrap and roll it into a flat layer. Put the dough on a baking sheet, bake for about 20 minutes on the middle shelf of the oven.
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Preheat the jam and grease the finished gingerbread layer with it while it is hot. Leave to dry for 30 minutes. Melt the chocolate in a water bath and cover it with a gingerbread layer. Cut the formation into small squares and leave for an hour to dry completely.
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