The Coorabie shortcake belongs to oriental sweets and is the most popular in Turkey. In shops this delicacy is on sale under the name "Coorabie Baku". Try to bake it in house conditions.
For preparation of a crisp biscuit of Coorabie it will be required: 550 g of wheat flour, proteins of 2 eggs, 30 g of jam or apple puree (or apricot), 150 g of icing sugar, 350 g of a desi (margarine). Butter and eggs for doughing have to have room temperature therefore it is necessary to take out previously them from the fridge. Mix the softened desi together with icing sugar, add egg whites. Mix weight, pour flour and make dough.
Shift it in a pastry bag with a wide nozzle "asterisk". On the baking tray oiled squeeze out dough in the small portions. If there is no pastry bag, arrive as follows. Cut dough on pieces. Roll each piece in balls. Flatten out these balls in flat cakes and make on them "petals" by means of a spoon, pressing down dough her edge. Decorate the center of the turned-out "flowers" with jam. If the consistence of fruit puree or jam is thinnish, it is possible to mix it with starch, at the rate on 1 tsp of fruit puree - ¼ tsps of starch. Bake Coorabie at a temperature 200-220os within 10-15 min. before obtaining golden color. Strew with icing sugar finished products. You store cookies in a sealed container as it quickly dries.
That cookies didn't break and kept a form, after baking let's it cool down directly on a baking sheet.
For preparation of Coorabie orientally (with spicery) it will be required: 250 g of a desi, 70 ml of milk, 2.5 cups of flour, 200 g of icing sugar, 50 g of honey, 1 tsp of ground lemon zest, 8 pieces of a carnation, 1 bag of vanillin, 3 pieces of cardamom. Pound the creamy softened oil in weight, mix with lemon zest, a ground spices, icing sugar, honey. Again pound that mass turned out homogeneous. Pour in milk, stir. Gradually adding flour, knead dough. Then put it for 15 minutes in the fridge. Roll layer of the test 1 cm thick. By means of a glass cut out cookies, create a spoon "petals", lay out on a baking tray. Decorate cookies top with jam. Bake products in an oven at 190-200os within 5 minutes. Warm strew Coorabie with the icing sugar mixed with vanillin.
Instead of an apple or pureed apricots (jam) it is possible to use any other.
Coorabie turns out very tasty almond. Except the main ingredients, almonds kernels are a part of the test. For preparation of cookies it will be required: 100 g of a desi, 150 g of flour, 50 g of a nibbled almond, 50 g of sugar, icing sugar. Crush almonds with 1 tablespoon of sugar. Fill on a table flour the hill, make deepening in the center and pour the crushed almonds. Cut the creamy softened oil on pieces, add to flour, put sugar. Knead dough, inwrap it in a polyethylene film and put for half an hour in the fridge. Lay out dough on a table, cut it on small portions. Roll from them long zhgutik. Cut them on pieces in 10 cm and bend so that the letter "V" turned out. Grease with a desi a baking tray and sprinkle with its flour. Place Coorabie and bake several minutes in the oven warmed up to 200 wasps. Remove from a baking sheet ready cookies a scapula, sprinkle with icing sugar, shift to a dish and cool.