Gingerbread with cucumber brine

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 50 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   To prepare simple Lenten gingerbreads, you don’t need much time at all and a rather modest set of ingredients. To prepare, take cucumber pickle, sugar, flour, soda, refined vegetable oil and spices to your taste - ground cloves, cinnamon, ginger, zest.

2. STEP 2

   

   Pour the cucumber brine into a container for kneading the dough and pour spices and soda into it. Stir until the brine and soda react.

3. STEP 3

   

   Then add sugar to the brine and continue stirring.

4. STEP 4

   

   After the sugar, add vegetable oil and beat a little with a fork or whisk.

5. STEP 5

   

   Next, start adding flour in portions and then knead.

6. STEP 6

   

   Do not pour out all the flour at once, add gradually while kneading.

7. STEP 7

   

   When the dough becomes denser, knead it by hand, leaving a little flour for rolling out the dough.

8. STEP 8

   

   The kneaded gingerbread dough will be sticky, so you need to sprinkle it with flour and only then roll it out. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a thickness of approximately 5-7 millimeters.

9. STEP 9

   

   Using molds, cut out figures from the rolled out dough.

10. STEP 10

    

    Place the gingerbread dough figures on baking sheets greased with vegetable oil, and simultaneously preheat the oven to 190 degrees.

11. STEP 11

    

    Place the baking sheets with the dough shapes in a hot oven.

12. STEP 12

    

    Bake the gingerbread cookies in the cucumber brine for 20 minutes; they should remain light in color, just slightly browned.

13. STEP 13

    

    Remove the finished gingerbreads from the baking sheets, transfer them to a dish and serve with tea. They cool very quickly, so you can serve them right away. Store cooled gingerbreads in a closed container or bag so that they do not go stale and remain soft.

Comments on the recipe

hang out

02.10.2023

4.7

I suggest baking village kokurks in brine. I'm sharing the recipe.

Maystin

02.10.2023

4.8

After preparing the salads, there was leftover brine from homemade pickled cucumbers. In order not to pour it out, I decided to bake gingerbread cookies in cucumber brine. I added sugar, cinnamon and dried ginger to the dough. I kneaded the dough so that it did not stick to my hands. I rolled out the dough not thinly and cut out the gingerbread cookies with a cookie cutter. The finished gingerbread cookies were well baked. Perfect for tea. Thanks for the recipe!