Brine cookies. Cookies with cucumber pickle

Brine cookies are an original recipe from our grandmothers, who never lost anything because they had fewer resources and opportunities. And cucumber pickle is no exception, it also has its uses! In addition, we have before us a culinaryly competent recipe, since soda, when interacting with an acidic environment, behaves in a predictable and necessary way - just like with a fermented milk product, which, as is known, is prohibited during fasting.

The recipe for brine cookies will be useful not only for those who are fasting. The dough, rich in nuts and dried fruits, is liked by everyone without exception. If you don’t add soda or baking powder and knead it more abruptly, you can roll out the cookies with a rolling pin and cut out various shapes; children are very interested in this process.

Lenten cookies in brine without baking powder come out quite hard and crispy; they can be stored for a long time until they are tasted. For those who like soft and doughy cookies, I advise you to follow the recipe and not bother with molding. Just place two teaspoons of heaped pieces of dough on a greased baking sheet; thanks to the baking soda, they will rise a little and take the shape of pies.

Anything you like can be used as a filling for cucumber pickle cookies: orange or lemon zest, any nuts and dried fruits: dried apricots, prunes, raisins, dried berries and even dates, try and choose your favorite combinations. In general, a rich topic, albeit a lean one. Try it for your health!

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
Quantity: 22 pieces

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp. brine from pickled cucumbers or tomatoes (250ml)
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 530-550g wheat flour
• 1 tbsp. Sahara
• 1 handful of raisins
• 1 handful of dried apricots
• 1 handful of hazelnuts
• 1 handful of walnuts
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch vanillin

Preparation

First of all, sort out the raisins or other dried fruits, rinse and soak them in hot water for 10 minutes. You can soak not only in water, but also in vodka, liqueur or rum. Softened dried fruits behave much better in baking than hard ones.



Strain a glass of brine from tomatoes or cucumbers and combine it in a deep bowl with half a glass of refined vegetable oil.



Add a glass of sugar to the butter and brine and stir, but there is no need to stir until completely dissolved.



Gently stir flour into the liquid with a teaspoon of baking soda, a pinch of salt and vanilla. Knead the dough. Try to stir with the spatula in one direction.



The dough for lean pickle cookies turns out to be quite thick and elastic; a mixer and blender cannot handle it, so knead it with a spatula or your hands.



Drain the dried fruits and pat them dry with a paper towel, lightly chop the hazelnuts and walnuts, and chop the dried apricots into small pieces or cubes. Add nuts and dried fruits to the dough.



And mix thoroughly, so that there are no sticky pieces of dried apricots, and all the nuts are distributed evenly over the dough.



Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and place approximately equal pieces of dough at a short distance from each other using two teaspoons (peel one against the other). Thanks to the soda, the cookies will increase slightly in volume.



Bake cookies on a medium level, in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, for 20-25 minutes (until golden brown).



In addition, you can bake traditionally shaped cookies, for this you need to roll 1 teaspoon of dough in flour and first roll it into a ball, and then flatten it with your fingers, you can directly on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour. Children will be happy to help you with this. In addition, you can roll out the dough into a layer approximately 7 mm high, and use a glass or any cookie cutter to press into the desired format. And then - onto a baking sheet.



Bake the molded cookies in brine for 20-25 minutes at 200 degrees until tanned. Be sure to oil the parchment if you use it and if it is not oiled. The silicone mat does not need to be lubricated with oil.

When broken, the cookies should be loose and completely baked, the main thing is to wait until they cool completely.

The housewife's special talent is the ability to prepare a delicious dish, not just from what is available, but from seemingly unusual ingredients. The ability to combine products that at first glance are not entirely compatible. For example, a combination in a dish such as brine and sugar. Many will ask what kind of dish this is, the answer is very simple, these are cookies with cucumber pickle. In this recipe we do not need a single egg, which will also surprise many. Despite all the unusual moves, the recipe is very simple. It is perfect for housewives who love fluffy cookies and are ready to pamper their family. If you put all the love into cooking, you will definitely end up with delicious brine cookies. A huge plus of this delicacy is that it retains its freshness for a long time, does not go stale and remains soft for a long time.

If you are ready, then we will prepare all the necessary products and begin.

• 1 glass of cucumber pickle;
• 0.5 cups sunflower oil;
• 1 cup sugar;
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• 3 cups wheat flour.

The ingredients are already waiting in the wings, so let’s start preparing homemade cookies.

Step by step recipe

For those who do not really like our main ingredient and are afraid that its taste will be present in the cookies, there is nothing to fear, the brine is absolutely not noticeable. It just adds an interesting flavor when combined with the other ingredients. The taste of the cookies is unlike anything else; this dish is truly unique. You can sprinkle the finished dish with powdered sugar for beauty.

You can make this kind of cookies with brine and margarine. And you can change not only its internal content, but also its external one. To do this, the dough, cut into strips, is passed through a meat grinder. You can also make oatmeal cookies in brine, a recipe that is also simple.

Small secrets for the dish

• Cooked cookies with cucumber brine can be safely served as a Lenten dish. If you don’t really like sweets, then you can confidently reduce the amount of sugar, in which case the cookies will be slightly salty due to the saturation with brine. This simple dish is sprinkled with grated cheese and baked in the oven to create something newer and completely different.
• You can also add cinnamon, candied fruits or cocoa to the dough if desired; these ingredients will add piquancy.
• If you see that there are a lot of spices and small particles in your brine, then it is better to strain it.
• These little tips will help you make Lenten brine cookies just perfect. Now you know how to make cookies the whole family will love. Make pickle cookies and pamper your loved ones.

Another anti-crisis recipe.

I remember that my mother never lost anything, everything went into cooking. She knew how to combine products together that I would never have thought of. For example, sugar and brine, for example cucumber. This made cookies that were excellent in taste. And how can you imagine the dough without chicken eggs? But she also succeeded, because in their time eggs were a scarce product. Therefore, I will describe to you a recipe that contains all these highlights and is very simple. Baking made with cucumber brine is crumbly and rich. Today I not only ate it, but also made it myself.

Ingredients for making cucumber pickle cookies:
Brine (I use cucumber, you can also use any other brine if desired) 1 cup
Granulated sugar 1 cup
Sunflower oil (I recommend taking unscented) half a glass
Premium wheat flour 3 cups
Soda 1 teaspoon
(I WENT IT TO 2 STANDARDS)
Pour the brine, sunflower oil and granulated sugar into a deep bowl, stir very thoroughly to obtain a homogeneous mass. I recommend using fresh cucumber brine so that it is tasty and not bitter. If it is very salty, then we should take less of it, then you can use 3/4 cup.

Sift the flour through a sieve to remove any lumps. Next, pour it into a bowl and add a spoonful of soda. There is no need to extinguish it, as the brine itself will do this for us. Mix everything thoroughly. Let the dough rest a little (15 minutes), then roll it out not very thin on a floured workspace.

Then you can use your imagination to prepare the cookies themselves. You can just make it round, if you have cookie cutters, you can use them. If you have a desire, you can cut out different animals or flowers. Who likes it more?

Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper (if you don’t have it, you can simply grease the baking sheet with oil) and preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Place the cookies on a baking sheet with a distance of 3-4 centimeters between them, so that when the dough bakes, it has room to expand. Place the baking sheet in the oven for up to 10 minutes. The cookies should brown slightly. I don’t recommend baking for too long, because the cookies will turn out hard, not crumbly. Then remove the products from the oven and cool thoroughly. You can cover it with a clean kitchen towel.

and since I still have plenty of brine left, I decided to look for interesting recipes, and take notes and add them here with a photo so as not to lose them.

Amazing pickle cake

Ingredients:

• cucumber pickle - 1 cup
• flour - 3 cups
• sugar - 1 glass
• vegetable oil - 1/3 cup
• soda - 1 tsp. (or baking powder - 1 tbsp.)
• vanillin

Brine cake in a slow cooker:

In a cup, mix all the ingredients: brine (I think tomato would work too), sunflower oil, sugar and vanillin. Add soda and flour. Mix.

You should get a thick dough. If desired, you can add raisins, nuts, and chocolate to the dough.

Place the dough into a bowl. I did not grease the bowl with oil, because the dough already contains enough of it, due to which the cake does not stick to the walls.

Set the “baking” mode. Let's bake brine cake in a slow cooker 60 minutes.

After this time, turn the cake over and brown it in the “baking” mode for another 20 minutes.

Remove the finished cake from the multicooker and decorate to taste.

Flatbread with cucumber brine.

Take a glass of brine, a glass of sugar, 20 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil, 2-3 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda.

Mix the brine with sugar, butter, add soda and flour, knead the dough a little thicker than for pancakes.
Grease a baking sheet with oil and carefully place the flatbreads with a spoon and place everything in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
Bon appetit!
Fast, tasty, simple!

Pancakes in brine

I suddenly wanted pancakes in the morning, and inappropriately I ran out of bread, but I absolutely didn’t want to run to the store. But what to prepare them from, kefir and whey have stagnated and are a little bitter. What should I do, stop making pancakes? Why? There will be a way out. All zealous housewives now have various pickles in stock, so you can use cucumber pickle instead of kefir or whey.

I really liked the brine dough, so I will continue to use it in different types of baked goods. And I’ll definitely make “lazy” pickle cookies more than once, and I advise you to try it :)

Let's make pancakes!

Pancakes made with cucumber brine are very tasty and piquant. They do not have a milky taste, but have a spicy aroma that gives these pancakes a special flavor. I first started making these when I needed to bake pancakes, but there was nothing dairy in the refrigerator, so I asked my grandmother. She advised me to try it in brine. I was very distrustful of her proposal, but still tried it, and did not regret it at all. Cheese, egg, and liver are very suitable fillings. Sweet filling will not work as they have a salty taste. And these pancakes will be an excellent alternative for people with allergies to dairy products.

This recipe is very relevant now that Maslenitsa week begins. I recommend baking pancakes not only according to your favorite recipe, but also trying as many other new ones as possible. For example, last year I found wonderful pancakes made with starch, custard, and pancakes made with chocolate. I will definitely share them with you.

Feb 22, 2014Katya-Mommy

Ingredients:

• 1 egg (for each glass of brine)
• 1 tbsp. clear tasty brine from cucumbers or tomatoes, or assorted
• 2 tbsp. granulated sugar
• Ground black pepper to taste
• Flour 130-140g or until the dough is liquid but not watery
• Vegetable oil in the dough 1 tbsp. + for frying the first and frying the stuffed

For filling:Hard cheeseSoda 1 tsp.

Brine cookies are a surprisingly tasty pastry that goes perfectly with tea. It’s easy to prepare, the ingredients are very common, and the end result is an excellent delicacy! Brine cookies turn out crumbly, crispy, aromatic, and absolutely without the smell of brine. This is a universal pastry that is suitable for lovers of flour and for those who watch their figure, because this delicacy belongs to lenten desserts. Moreover, different brines are used to prepare such cookies. You can make cookies with cucumber brine or tomato brine. Everyone has different tastes, so some people like one thing more, others another. But, no matter what brine is used, the result will be excellent; slightly salty Lenten cookies will be prepared, the taste of which will be slightly spicy.

But how are such cookies prepared, what is the recipe, what is required for this? We will examine this issue in detail in this article. Since such cookies can be prepared in different ways, let's consider several options for preparing them.

You will need the following ingredients to make these cookies:

• a glass of cucumber pickle;
• a glass of granulated sugar;
• half a glass of refined sunflower oil;
• 3 tbsp. flour (premium wheat);
• teaspoon of soda.

These brine cookies are prepared as follows:

1. Take a deeper bowl, pour cucumber brine into it, add refined oil, as well as granulated sugar, mix this mass well, a mass with a homogeneous consistency should come out. Moreover, note that the brine should be fresh, tasty, without bitterness. If the brine is too salty, then a third of a glass is enough.

2. After this, you need to pour the pre-sifted flour into a bowl, add soda, there is no need to extinguish it, because the dough contains brine. Mix everything well and leave the dough for fifteen minutes. Next, you need to flour your work surface and roll out the dough not too thin.

3. And now you can use your imagination to prepare the cookies themselves. You can give the cookies a regular round shape, or you can use cutters or cut out flowers, animals, whatever you like.

4. Cookies are baked in the oven. Place parchment paper on a baking sheet or simply grease it with oil and heat the oven to 200 degrees. We do not place the cookies very tightly on the baking sheet (with a distance of three centimeters), since during baking the dough will rise and expand. Bake for no more than ten minutes, this is quite enough.

5. We take the lightly browned cookies out of the oven. Do not overcook, because instead of crumbly baked goods, you will get hard baked goods. The cookies should be cooled well and covered with a kitchen towel.

6. To enrich the taste of the cookies and give them a more attractive appearance, you can use powdered sugar by sprinkling it on this wonderful delicacy.



Tomato brine cookie recipe

You will need the following ingredients to make these Lenten cookies:

• a glass of tomato pickle;
• a glass of sugar;
• 0.5 tbsp. refined vegetable oil;
• 4 tbsp. flour;
• a teaspoon of soda;
• one yolk (for greasing cookies).

Method for making cookies from tomato brine:

1. Pour vegetable oil into the tomato brine and add sugar. It is recommended to leave a little oil at the bottom of the glass; it will be useful at the end of the kneading; they will need to lubricate their hands in order to knead the dough (thanks to this action, the dough will not stick to your hands).

2. Then you should pour soda and flour into the resulting mass. It’s better not to pour out all the flour at once; you can leave the glass for later, gradually adding more flour at the end. So you definitely can’t overdo it with flour.

3. The dough is kneaded, in the end it will be soft, not clogged with flour, and will not stick to your hands, since it contains vegetable oil.

4. The finished dough should be covered with a towel, leaving for about twenty minutes to infuse.

5. Then you should pinch off a piece of dough, roll it into a sausage and cut into small identical pieces. Do this with the remaining dough.

6. Each piece should be round in shape. Next, the cookies are laid out on a baking sheet and brushed with beaten yolk for a golden crust.

7. The cookies are baked for about fifteen minutes in the oven at 180 degrees. It should brown well.



Recipe for Lenten brine cookies

Prepare the following products:

• 150 ml refined oil;
• 200 g wheat flour;
• teaspoon baking powder;
• 150 ml brine (cucumber or tomato to choose from);
• 8 tbsp. l. Sahara.

We prepare this Lenten delicacy in this way:

1. This recipe is quite simple. First you need to combine the brine with sunflower oil and sugar.

2. Then baking powder and flour are added to this mixture.

4. Then sprinkle the board on which we will roll out the dough with flour. The thickness of the dough should be about 3 millimeters. Take a cookie cutter and cut out future cookies.

5. After this, we place our cookies on a baking sheet, which we cover with parchment.

6. Cookies should be baked for about twenty minutes, and the temperature in the oven should not be lower than 180 degrees.



Cookies with brine and margarine

The following products will be required:

• 250 g sifted flour;
• 75 g granulated sugar;
• 80 ml kefir;
• three eggs;
• 80 ml brine;
• 100 g soft margarine.

The method for making cookies is as follows:

1. Beat kefir, softened margarine, sugar and eggs until a uniform consistency is formed. Check that the sugar is completely dissolved.

2. Then add flour to the resulting mass, which must be sifted in advance, and also pour in the brine, mix everything well.

4. Prepare the table, sprinkle it well with flour.

5. After this, divide our dough into several small equal parts and roll in flour. Make small round cookies from each piece.

6. Gently sprinkle sugar on top of cookies.

7. Prepare a baking tray, grease it with oil and place the prepared cookies.

8. These cookies are baked in brine for about thirty minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.



Cookies with brine and margarine through a meat grinder

The products should be prepared as follows:

• 170 g margarine;
• a pair of eggs;
• 200 g sugar;
• 60 ml of any brine;
• a pinch of soda;
• 500 g flour.

We prepare these cookies in brine in this simple way:

1. Let's start preparing the dough. Let's look at the recipe in detail. And so, first you need to beat margarine at room temperature (soft) with sugar until white.

2. Then add the brine with eggs to the resulting mass and beat thoroughly again.

3. After this, you need to add a mixture of soda and flour and knead the dough to a thick consistency, but it should not be sticky.

4. The already prepared dough must be divided into parts, which should be passed through a meat grinder; small sausages of the same length must be cut from the twisted dough.

5. Now you can bake these cookies, passed through a meat grinder. We take a baking sheet, lay out parchment, place the cookies at a short distance from each other and put them in the oven, which we preheat to 190 degrees, after twenty minutes we take out the delicious ready-made cookies.