Christmas buns: gingerbread cookies

The homeland of this batch is the Arkhangelsk province, later the people of the Murmansk region and the Urals adopted the tradition of making roe deer. Most often, the roe deer are animals, since they originally symbolized the animals that were present in the shed at the time of the birth of the infant of Christ.

First the roe deer was baked from rye dough, but later they turned into a kind of gingerbread. There are many variants of the test for the roebuck, it is often added to it (caramelized sugar syrup) or honey. Since roe deer are gingerbread, ground spices such as cloves, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom, etc. are also added to the dough. The ready-made goats are painted with a tinted protein glaze.

Roe: prescription first

To prepare gingerbread cookies for this recipe, we'll take:

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  1.3 kg of flour
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  600 g of sugar
• 
  150 g of butter
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  3 eggs
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  5 tbsp. l. powdered sugar
• 
  1 tbsp. l. blends of ground spices
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  1/2 tsp. soda
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  1/2 tsp. salt
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  food colorings

Small pan or deep frying panheat, moisten with water and pour out a glass of sugar. Pass the sugar to a dark brown color, continuously stirring with a wooden spatula. Gently pour a glass of boiling water, without stopping stirring. Add the remaining sugar, bring the mixture to a boil. When all the sugar is dissolved, remove the burnt from the fire and let it cool.

One whole egg and two yolks whisk in a lushfoam. Mix the beaten eggs, burnt, butter, spices and flour. We knead a homogeneous dough. Sprinkle the table with flour, spread the dough on it and continue to knead until it becomes thick and does not stop sticking to your hands. Finished dough wrapped in cellophane and put into the refrigerator for an hour.

After an hour we rolled the dough into a 0.5-thick layercm and cut out the figures of animals. We spread them on a baking tray, oiled, and bake the goat to golden color at a temperature of 180 degrees. Ready to cook we let it cool.

While the roebuck cools down, we prepare the glaze. To do this, whisk together with sugar powder two squirrels. Glaze is divided into parts, each of which is painted in some color. Using the cornet, we paint the roe with glaze and let it dry.

Roe: recipe for the second

This is a recipe for roe with honey, for the preparation of which we will need:

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  400 g of rye flour
• 
  300 g of wheat flour
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  1 tbsp. honey
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  1 tbsp. milk
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  1 tbsp. powdered sugar
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  5 egg yolks
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  1 egg white
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  4 tbsp. l. melted butter
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  2 tbsp. l. Sahara
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  2 tsp. blends of ground spices
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  1/2 tsp. soda
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  food colorings

Milk with oil is heated to a temperature of 60-70degrees. Yolks rub with sugar and add to the milk-oil mixture. There we put honey, sifted rye and wheat flour, spices and soda. We knead the dough, beating it against the table, and roll it out with a layer about 1 cm thick. Special figurines for a biscuit or just a knife we ​​cut figurines of animals from the dough.

Ready figurines are laid out on a baking sheet atsome distance from each other and bake for 10-12 minutes in the oven, heated to a temperature of 200 degrees. Ready to cool the roe. While they cool, beat egg white with powdered sugar and tint the resulting icing natural (cocoa, turmeric, beet juice, etc.) or artificial food colorings. We draw out the ready-made roebucks with a multicolored glaze and wait until it dries.

Bon appetit and happy holidays!