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Pink Reims biscuits

These biscuits are a speciality of Reims. They have a light texture, rather like finger biscuits, and are traditionally rectangular and coloured pink.

59,0964/5 for 13 ratings

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Last modified on: February 12^th 2014

For 30 biscuits, you will need:

1 3 eggs
2 140 g caster sugar
3 125 g flour
4 5 drops food colouring
5 50 g icing sugar
Total weight: 465 grams

Change those ingredients for: 10 biscuits 15 biscuits 30 biscuits 60 biscuits 90 biscuits

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
26 min.	20 min.	46 min.

Keeping: Several days in an airtight tin.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Beat together the yolks of 3 eggs with 140 g caster sugar until the mixture foams and turns white.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Add the egg whites a little at a time...

Stage 3

...allowing the mixture to "foam" each time before adding more.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

At the end, add the red colouring.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Sieve 125 g flour onto the mixture and fold in gently with a soft spatula. Lean the bowl over on its side to do this more easily.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).

Reims biscuits are normally rectangular, but you can use whatever shape moulds or tins you have available.

Fill the moulds 3/4 full.

Stage 7 - 20 min.

Dust with icing sugar and bake for about 20 minutes.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Turn out when cold.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,405 Kcal or 5,882 Kj	30 gr	283 gr	17 gr
70 %	12 %	27 %	3 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
302 Kcal or 1,264 Kj	6 gr	61 gr	4 gr
15 %	2 %	6 %	1 %

Per biscuits
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
47 Kcal or 197 Kj	1 gr	9 gr	1 gr
2 %	<1 %	1 %	<1 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 30 biscuits : 0.84 €
Per biscuits : 0.03 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

From Gaston Lenôtre.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: New tiramisu, Vanilla ice cream, Hazelnut and orange cake, Half-cooked chocolate cake with raspberry coulis, Real custard sauce (crème anglaise), ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Brownies, Corsican tarts, Burger buns, Toasted-flour biscuits, French onion soup, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Succès praliné (praline meringue), Walnut paste, Tarte Normande, Finger biscuits, Hazelnut and orange cake, ... All
	Food colouring: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Blackcurrant, vanilla and lime verrine , Fresh mint ice-cream, Lime (or lemon) curd, X-Files cookies, Strawberry feuilleté, ... All

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