Cookie recipe calling for seven egg yolks
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Anonymous
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Yes, you read that title right. I have a German recipe for S-Gaback, which are S-shaped butter cookies, from the old Time Life German cookbook. The recipe is simple and to make 7 dozen cookies:
1/2 pound butter 1 cup sugar 7 egg yolks 1 tsp grated lemon peel 4 cups flour 1 egg white Decorating sugar To my eye, that is a lot of egg yolks and I've never seen any cookie recipe call for so many eggs. But I am intrigued and may give it a try this weekend. But what do other experienced bakers think? I googled online and most of the S-geback recipes I find call for 1-2 eggs, not 7! Even when adjusting for quantity. |
Anonymous
| 7 yolks for 7 dozen cookies is only one yolk per dozen which doesn’t seem extreme. |
Anonymous
| As someone whose family loves pavlova, this seems likes a cookie I might need to make! |
Anonymous
That is a good point. I will give it a try and report back. |
Anonymous
| It is to counteract the meringue cookies that use only egg whites. Then, you have no waste. |
Anonymous
| The yolks should make this a rich and chewy cookie. Sounds delish. |
Anonymous
| That sounds great, especially after making an angel food cake! I’m saving the recipe. |
Anonymous
For OP, pavlovas use egg whites. So this would be a perfect companion to your cookies! |
Anonymous
This seems like a possible origin story for the recipe (I guess it would have been schaum torte rather than pavlova). One of my cookbooks has a recipe for egg yolk-heavy cookies that says it's a good way to use up yolks after you've made an angel food cake. |
Anonymous
| 7 dozen cookies! My goodness you are going to be busy! |
Anonymous
Many cookie recipes make that many. It's only 84 cookies. Look Joy of Cooking. |
Anonymous
| My thumb print cookie recipe (it’s really just pate sucre is 1 egg yolk and 3/4 cup flour, so it doesn’t seem that unreasonable a ratio of egg yolk to flour. |
Anonymous
The phrase “only 84 cookies” is amazing. |
Anonymous
Do you mean Geback (umlaut over the e) cookies shaped like an "S"? I don't think there is anything called "S-geback" and Geback just means pastry, biscuit, cookie. |
Anonymous
| Und the pointlessly strict person enters at 20:00 on the dot. |