Cookies "Herrnhuter Herzen"

Category: Confectionery
Kitchen: german
Herrnhuter Herzen Cookies

Ingredients

Flour 380 g (I have 420 g)
Oil 225 g
Egg 2 pcs.
Sugar 70 g
Favorite icing
Beetroot juice for coloring 5-8 drops
Halves of peeled almonds by the number of cakes

Cooking method

  • Still, a person loves with his heart! You can strain your brains as much as you like, sorting out the merits of a potential object of love, but only when you begin to listen to your heart, the whole gamut of feelings characteristic of a loving person immediately falls upon you, and the heart begins to beat more fully and faster in response! Or it doesn't collapse, you don't feel it! Because the heart remains cold despite all the efforts and arguments of the mind. This is probably why the heart became a symbol of love. And despite the fact that this symbol is replicated, blurred and not always used to the place, even strong brutal men do not consider it shameful to click on the heart and send an unambiguous sign to their beloved as a reminder of their feelings.
  • And before they wrote letters, even being in the same city, not to mention the longer distances in which they poured out their feelings. It was no accident that this expression was used! Of course not! Because love is not just one straightforward feeling, it is a complex of feelings, thoughts, sensations that overwhelm a person and rush in a stream or carry it in a stream towards the only goal of being together.
  • And after many years of life, it is still a stream flowing evenly, but constantly, in one direction, overcoming the difficulties of the path, and in this calm powerful current without waves and splashes there is the beauty of a smooth surface of water, in which the sky is reflected. And the stars are always better visible to her!
  • These letters were kept, carefully tied with silk ribbons, in beautiful tin boxes, along with other cute little things. Passed by inheritance, sometimes burned by the authors of the correspondence or relatives for quite understandable reasons. But some of these boxes safely survive wars, floods, relocations, survive several generations in secluded places and safely emerge in the most unexpected places and even countries.
  • As soon as I thought about it, the Internet god immediately threw me an amazing story of one recipe.
  • I want to share this story and the recipe itself.
  • I give a free translation of this story.
  • “My late grandmother had a peculiar habit of never unpacking the gifts we gave her. She put them aside until better times, leaving them at my parents' house forever, wrapped in an unopened package.
  • One of those "shipwrecked" Christmas presents was a book with color photographs of recipes. I spent many hours leafing through and literally licking my lips, looking at these beautiful pictures, for example, the chestnut ice cream.
  • This was in the mid-1970s, long before the Internet, which circulated photographs of various foods from every corner of the world.
  • Several years ago, my mother gave this book to me. Looking at these photos, we felt that good old friends had come to the house.
  • One of those childhood memorable recipes was a heart-shaped cookie with pink and white frosting and an almond half called Herrnhuter Herzen. They are similar to the cookies made for Valentine's Day. This intrigued me as it seemed that they had no obvious connection with this tradition.
  • The book says they originated in Herrnhut, a city in Saxony, about 70 miles east of Dresden.
  • Although the tourist office at Herrnhut was unable to help me locate any cookie record in the archives of the city's museum, the director directed me to a local bakery and pastry shop that had been owned by the same family since 1841. The owner said that his bakery has not baked Herrnhuter Herzen since the end of World War II, but he had some ideas about these cookies.
  • The gathering of kindred hearts, as I learned from him, plays an essential role in the beliefs of the Moravian Church, for which Herrnhut is the historical center. The pink frosting, as the baker told me, represents the blood of Jesus, which cleanses the human heart, that is, makes it white like white frosting. And almonds can be just a side dish, or a symbol of the depth of the heart. "
  • I tried to make this cookie and I can say that it takes some patience. Isn't patience the main component of love for neighbors, loved ones and loved ones?
  • Preparation
  • - Cut the heavily cooled butter into pieces.
  • - Pour flour and sugar into the bowl of the combine, put pieces of butter on top and in a few seconds turn the flour and butter into butter crumbs.
  • - Add 2 eggs to the food processor and knead the dough. We look, as soon as the dough begins to take shape, put it in a bowl and stir it a little, forming a lump. Flour can be added if necessary.
  • - We make three flat thick cakes from the coma, sprinkle them with flour, put them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
  • - Roll out the dough piece by piece to a thickness of 0.4 cm, cut out the hearts and put on baking paper. It is better not to transfer the hearts from the board to a baking sheet, but directly shake them out of the cutting mold on paper. So they are less deformed.
  • - Bake at 175 degrees until light golden brown. Allow to cool.
  • - Make a white frosting, spread the cookie halves. Make another portion of the white glaze and tint it with light dye or beetroot juice. Spread on the other half of the cookie and drown half the peeled almonds in it.

Note

By the beginning of the 18th century, the communities of Czech brothers in Moravia itself had become more German in their ethnic composition.

selenа
Ol you have 48 hours a day
Rada-dms
Quote: selenа

Ol you have 48 hours a day
No, just 25!
Chuchundrus
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Rada-dms
Chuchundrus, this is the second minibus, I remember! I corrected the text, or translated it, but this fucking automatic proofreader translated it in its own way !!
Masyusha
Rada-dms, Olyayaya! I don't even have time to write down after you. One recipe is better than another! Bravo!
Rada-dms
Masyusha, and yet I do not even have time to answer !!! Thank you!!!!! This is the only thing that stimulates !!!
Ikra
Quote: selenа

Ol you have 48 hours a day

I'm not the only one who thinks about it !!!!!

Lovely hearts, an interesting story!
Rada-dms
Ikra, I, too, as I read, was so moved that in the fall I conceived these hearts. They usually go to Christmas.
Ira! Thank you for your attention and interest in new things !!!
Ikra
Rada-dms, you know, it's time for you to open a restaurant ... Such a small, family one. And so that it has different cuisines - for example, a month is German, a month is Italian, then some other ... I would go to you and eat, and in the kitchen to curious how you conjure
Mikhaska
I'm glad! All this symbolism is so touching! And such cute cookies! Lovely! Wonderful recipe!
NataliARH
Olya, it turned out very gentle!
Nana
Delicate and pleasant.
Rada-dms
Nana, NataliARH, girls, they create such a romantic mood, precisely with color and this nut. Warmth is created in the soul! I saved five pieces for my mother and I go and look at them, think about the good!
Rada-dms
Quote: Ikra

Rada-dms, you know, it's time for you to open a restaurant ... Such a small, family one. And so that it has different cuisines - for example, a German month, an Italian month, then some other ...I would go to you and eat, and in the kitchen to be curious about how you conjure
Ikra, if you go to partners, then I will make up my mind! Will you be the creative director !?

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