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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.

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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

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Time required

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

% 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 : 4.78 €
Per biscuits : 0.16 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

From Gaston Lenôtre

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	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pancake batter, Buckwheat almond biscuits, Moist Lemon Cake, Chocolate sweetcrust pastry, Panettone, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Marzipan (almond paste), Jam doughnuts, Arlesian Biscuits, Royal icing, Mini lemon millefeuilles, ... All
	Food colouring: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pear and lime meringue pie, Strawberry feuilleté, X-Files cookies, Macarons (the original French macaroons) , Lime (or lemon) curd, ... All

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