The biscuits or korzhiks Baturin are tasty and aromatic dessert to tea. They are very easy-to-cook, besides any nuts can be used to make them.
Ingredients
Flour 3.5 glass
Egg 5 pieces
Nut 1.5 glass
Smetana (sour cream) 0.5 glass
Sugar 1 glass
Dairy butter 200 g
White wine 2 tbsp
Stages of cooking
1
Boil and cool three eggs. Grind three boiled yolks with two raw yolks. Add the sour cream, butter, sugar and wine. Stir until fully combined.
2
Sieve the flour. Slowly add the flour to egg batter. Properly grind to avoid clots. Grind the half of nuts, and then add the nuts into the dough.
3
Line the baking tray with baking parchment, brush it with butter. Roll the dough out to 1cm thick, shape circles with a top of a cup or cookie cutter. Place them on the baking tray.
4
Sprinkle every biscuit with nuts, sugar and brush with yolk. Heat oven to 180C, bake until ready.
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The spotykach is commonly confused with liquors however there is a significant difference. The spotykach is sweeter, denser and more aromatic, and it is reckoned to be a dessert beverage. Following these directions any fruits can be used, nevertheless the recipe with blackcurrants is considered to be the classic one.
