Recipe for roe deer: dough and glaze

For a long time people baked different sweets for the holidays. For a birthday - a cake, Easter - cakes, for a wedding - a loaf. But at Christmas baked roe.

What are such sweets?

Roe deer is a traditional Christmas cookie made from rye or wheat flour. Most often it was done in the form of a goat, a horse, a sheep, a cow, a deer. The goat has always been considered a symbol of wealth and prosperity in the house, and making cookies in the form of this animal symbolized prosperity.

On Christmas holidays, all relatives, friends, neighbors and caroling children received cookies of goat for a treat. The recipe for such sweets was inherited. In each family, the goat baked with its "zest". After all, Christmas cookies were treated not only to people, but also fed to domestic animals. People believed that after that the cattle became very prolific. In addition, the roe deer was hung in the stables or the stable as a guard, and also used for fortune telling on Epiphany.

Roeach cookies. The recipe is the first

For preparation it is required:

• 5 glasses of sugar (in dough and glaze);
• 2.5 cups of water;
• 3 eggs (in dough);
• 5 yolks (in dough);
• 2 protein (in the glaze).
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt;
• 2 tablespoons of soda;
• 2-3 spoons of spices (cloves, ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon);
• 2 drops of acetic essence (in the glaze);
• 1.8-2 kg of flour.

Preparation of dough and production of roe

On low heat in thick dishes (preferably if it is a frying pan with a dense bottom), melt 2 cups of sugar (to brown color). After slowly pour in a glass of boiling water. The water in the dishes should strongly boil and steal. It is better not to bend low over the frying pan, so as not to burn your face. It is necessary to stir constantly the mass with a wooden spoon. All dissolved in a homogeneous mixture. Add as much sugar (2 cups), stir and allow to dissolve completely. Next, you can remove the syrup from the fire and add 350 grams of margarine (butter). Pour the whole mass into a large saucepan and allow to cool.

While the syrup cools, in a separate cup you need to beat 5 yolks and 3 whole eggs (like an omelet). Pour the egg mixture into the cooled syrup. Add salt, spices (you can taste) and soda. Sift flour, then gradually pour into the sugar mixture. Flour should be poured as required by the recipe of roe, even if the dough seems to be liquid. Otherwise, the products will be rigid. Ready to put the dough in a cool place for one day.

At the end of the required time, roll it out about a centimeter thick and cut out your favorite figures (you can make the necessary templates in advance). Bake products should be at a temperature of 180 degrees.

Glaze

And how to make icing for roe? The recipe for its preparation, we now consider. First you need to beat two squirrels into a tight foam. Boil the syrup from a glass of water and sugar. Boil the syrup from the heat and pour the squirrels into it. Beat with a mixer until thickened (15-25 minutes). In the end, pour the essence. If you want, you can add a dye. After that the glaze can decorate the finished roebucks.

To make the cookie soft and tasty, it's best to make it big and not very thin. And most importantly, do not overdo the dough in the oven! Then you get real, "magic" Christmas roe, the traditional recipe of which is now known to you!

Other products

Also baked gingerbread cookies. And what kind of products, and where did they come from? Gingerbread appeared in the north of Arkhangelsk. In those ancient times they were baked only on New Year and Christmas. Cut gingerbread in the shape of animal, bird, angel, tree, house, Christmas star or sleigh figures. The recipe of the roe was transmitted from grandmothers to mothers and reached today. There are also individual family forms of roe deer, both old and new, modern.

The northerners believed that roe deer attracted good luck. If, for example, a young girl herself makes a carrot and gives it to a bachelor guy, then soon she will necessarily become a bride. But the biggest roe was made to give the whole family for good luck. She was considered an amulet. Most often the roe deer was baked in the stove. But in the 30s of the last century another method was used: before putting the figure in the oven, it was lowered for a couple of minutes into boiling water to preserve the shape of the carrot.

The main secret of making a roebuck is to make a dough with love, in a good mood and without haste. It is best to start kneading late at night, before going to bed.

Gingerbread

And how to cook gingerbread for roebuck? Its recipe is clear to everyone. For cooking, you will need:

• 2-2.5 kg of sifted flour;
• two eggs;
• A packet of margarine or butter;
• A tablespoon of soda, slaked with vinegar;
• Spices to taste (cloves, ginger, cinnamon);
• 3-4 glasses of sugar.

Preparation

• First you need to pour half of the sugar into a saucepan and pour a glass of water (cold boiled). Cook on low heat.
• Cut the butter (margarine) into small pieces.
• In a thick frying pan, burn one glass of sugar, stirring constantly, until it melts to brown and foam appears. After pour the burnt sugar into the boiling syrup, stirring all the time. Now you can add pieces of butter and mix to leave a homogeneous liquid. Cool in the cold.
• While the syrup cools, you can mix selected spices. Best for gingerbread cinnamon.
• Beat two eggs and pour into spices, there add the soda and the cooled syrup. All the mix well.
• Before starting to knead the dough, it is necessary to record the time on the timer - the whole process should take more than an hour. This requires a real recipe for roe deer.
• Even if it seems that the dough is ready in 30-40 minutes, you still need to continue kneading it. Otherwise, during baking gingerbread cracked.
• Pour flour into small portions. First, the dough is kneaded with a mixer, then with hands. This is a very laborious work. If the woman does not cope, you can ask a man to help. The main thing is to knead the dough in a fine mood and with kind thoughts.
• As a result, you should get a dough, similar to a wet loaf, not sticking to your hands. It should be put in a bag and sent to the refrigerator for one or two weeks!
• Before baking, the dough should lie in the room. Then you can cut off a piece and roll out a layer about 0.5 centimeter thick. From the rolled out dough cut out the figures using templates.
• Oven to warm up to 180 degrees and bake gingerbread 5 minutes to brown.

Glaze for roebuck. Recipe

First, we'll tell you how white glaze is made . It is necessary to whip one protein thoroughly. Next, you need to gradually add the powdered sugar (glass) and a few drops of lemon for shine. Pink glaze to prepare as follows: first you need to separate a little white glaze and drip the juice of raw beetroot into it, and then mix until a homogeneous shade.

Gingerbread can be decorated with a brush, match, stick or confectionery bag. It all depends on the imagination. Products are better not to fill with glaze, and draw intricate New Year patterns. The recipe for glaze can be slightly varied if you add carrot juice, cocoa or colorants to the cream.

The third recipe

Of course, these are not the only gingerbread cookies. The recipe for another magical baking will help to make such sweet foods a little faster. For cooking, you will need:

• Sugar - 800 g;
• glass of water;
• Margarine (oil) - 150 g;
• Spices (cinnamon, cloves);
• Soda - a teaspoonful;
• 3 eggs;
• flour.

Cooking gingerbread

Melt one glass of sugar and dissolve it in a glass of hot water. After pouring two more cups of sand and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat and put in syrup butter (about 150 g), a teaspoon of cinnamon and soda. Cool and add one egg and two yolks. After pouring 0.5 kg of flour and kneading a stiff dough. Keep it in a cool place. After adding another half a kilogram of granulated sugar and roll it into a layer 50 mm thick. Cut animal figurines and put them on a sheet, oiled.

Spread the gingerbread eggs with water and put in the oven. Bake for about 7 minutes. Finished products must dry out.

How to cook glaze for roebuck in this case? The recipe is practically the same as usual. For cooking, you will need:

• Two proteins;
• powdered sugar;
• Dye or juice of berries and vegetables.

Coolly beat up two proteins and powdered sugar (5-7 tablespoons). Add food color or juice of cranberries, beets, blueberries, cowberries, carrots. Stir well until smooth. Add the dye until the desired color is obtained. Then you can decorate the cakes with icing.

Conclusion

Many do not even suspect that there are such delicious and unusual gingerbread cookies. Some saw or tried this pastry, but did not know its name. Now you understand how to make real Christmas roe, the recipe of which is presented in the article, which means that you yourself can not only try, but also bake these amazing figures. Most of all they are loved by children. After all, gingerbread are so similar to fabulous toys that bring joy and faith in the miracle of the New Year. And, however, there is no such holiday, when it would be impossible to decorate the dining table with gingerbread roe! Whatever recipe of roe deer you choose, bake them with love, goodness and faith in the best! Dare - and you will succeed!