634. Pastine Pel the

Tea Cookies

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Pellegrino Artusi

Published 1998

  • About

Mistress Wood, an amiable English lady, offered me tea with cookies she had made with her own hands, and had the courtesy, rarely found in pretentious chefs, of giving me the recipe for them. I shall now describe it for you, having first tested it personally.

Ingredients

  • 440 grams (about 15-½ ounces) of Hungarian or extra fine flour
  • 160 grams<

Method

Mix the two types of flour and the sugar, and place the mixture in a mound on the pastry board. Make a hole in the middle of the mound, and drop in it the egg whites and butter (in small pats). Then first with a knife blade and later with your hands, blend the ingredients until you have a rather soft dough. Roll out the dough with the rolling pin in a sheet as thick as a large coin. Cut into di