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Post by braided-rug on Oct 12, 2005 16:30:57 GMT 10
I know only what I have learnt lately about Christmas cookies. In Australia we get given biscuits in a tin from Europe, and that is about it I think.
I have learnt to make sugar cookies, and have gradually worked out that you ice them with colored royal icing.
I am hoping you tell me more!
I found a pretty site once with a picture of them. Failing that I was happy to see some in a Pooh bear picture book.
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 12, 2005 16:46:52 GMT 10
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Post by ellise on Oct 13, 2005 4:04:09 GMT 10
br you can also do "Traditional" Sugar cookies, you just roll them in white sugar (or which ever you prefer) put them on the cookie sheet and bake for about 10 minutes
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 13, 2005 9:13:49 GMT 10
I have a recipe for those but the other ones I just love. They are different to the biscuits we roll out in Australia, much less hard and easier to make.
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 13, 2005 9:17:29 GMT 10
Maybe the ones that we buy in the tin are the traditional sugar cookies as they do have sugar on them. Often they just call them things to Australianise them I guess. That is an interesting thought. Maybe I could make some to compare.
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Post by ellise on Oct 13, 2005 12:00:34 GMT 10
If you like them soft, take them off the cookie sheet and cool them upside down. Keeps them from cooking any further.
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Post by ellise on Oct 13, 2005 12:06:39 GMT 10
Hey br, I just thought of something. You could always roll them out and cut with cutters and sprinkle them with Colored sugars KWIM?
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 17, 2005 14:20:57 GMT 10
I think the girls and I did that when it was autumn here. We had some little tree sugars. They cost $7 here the mixed ones. I love having them though. Here is a picture of some iced cookies: www.joyofbaking.com/RoyalIcing.html |
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Post by Admin on Oct 18, 2005 7:04:35 GMT 10
A family tradition at our home when the children were young was baking and decorating sugar cookies at Christmas time. I prefer the soft ones, but it seems the children liked the crispier ones so they could dip them in their milk..
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Post by ellise on Oct 18, 2005 8:50:17 GMT 10
Another "quick" way to ice your cookies is to make or buy Icing (frosting) and slather them that way. Set them in a cool 180°F oven for about 2 minutes, remove and let cool in the fridge. Kids love 'em!
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 18, 2005 9:23:30 GMT 10
Betty Crocker does sell frosting here, Australians mostly use glace icing. I must try the frosting. I remember now, we did a kind of glaze, it was very thin and put the leaves over that.
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Post by frugalmel on Oct 18, 2005 10:38:16 GMT 10
Christmas cookies!! Ooooh now you are talking my language. I love the "iced" ones (traditional American kind. Plus I have many more recipes. Some are not a traditional "cookie" or biscuit?. I will try to look up a few and share them.
For Christmas our family does...
Iced cookies
haystacks
buckeyes
fudge
and sometimes we do what I call "stained glass cookies". (sugar cookie with melted hard candy 'windows' in the middle.
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 18, 2005 10:49:07 GMT 10
My husband has an old recipe book and the Animal Biscuits (Cookies) don't seem that much different to sugar cookies. Maybe I used another recipe that turned out very hard.
Animal Biscuits
2oz self-rising flour
2oz all purpose flour
pinch of salt
2oz butter or margarine
2oz sugar
1 egg
Sift flour and salt. Rub in butter or margarine, using the fingers. Add the sugar and mix into a firm dough with some of the egg. Place on floured board and roll out thinly. Cut into shapes with your cutters. Place biscuits on greased oven tray. Brush them with the egg left over from the mixing. Bake in a moderate over 10 to 12 minutes.
Then another disguised sugar cookie:
Wholemeal Sugar Buttons
4oz self-rising wholemeal flour
pinch of salt
2oz brown sugar
2oz butter or margarine
1 dessertspoon coffee essence (every old-fashioned cupboard had it then)
3 dessertspoons milk
1oz chopped walnuts.
Sift wholemeal flour and salt. Put butter or margarine and sugar in a basin and stand the basin in warm water to soften it. Stir with a wooden spoon until butter or margarine and sugar are well blended. Mix in sifted ingredients alternately with the milk and coffee essence. Lastly mix in the walnuts. Roll mixture into small balls. Dip in sugar and place on greased tray, allowing 1 inch space between each ball. Bake in a moderate oven 10 - 12 minutes. Lift from the tray and cool on a cake wire.
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Post by braided-rug on Oct 19, 2005 16:52:54 GMT 10
Royal Icing
1 egg white
1 cup pure icing sugar/powdered sugar (metric 1/10th more)
1/2 teas lemon juice
Sift icing sugar. Strain lemon juice.
Place egg white in a basin, beat until stiff.
4. Add icing sugar slowly, beating well.
Add lemon juice and beat icing until it will hold in stiff peaks.
Keep covered to prevent drying out. Use the slowest speed for electric beaters.
Royal Icing may be prepared from egg white powder. Place 2 teas egg white powder in 2 tabs cold water. Beat and follow recipe for Royal Icing from step 4. May be kept in an air-tight container in the fridge for several days. Beat well before using. The basin of icing must, at all times be covered with a damp cloth throughout use.
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