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Pink Reims biscuits

Name: Pink Reims biscuits
Prep time: 26 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 46 min
Yield: 30 biscuits
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 140 g caster sugar; 125 g flour; 5 drops food colouring; 50 g icing sugar

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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Duration

50 min.

Difficulty

Easy

Last modified on: February 12^th 2014

Step by step recipe Ingredients Duration Nutritional facts Cost Comments

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

Times for this recipe

Preparation

30 min.

Cooking

20 min.

All in all

50 min.

Preparation 30 min.

Cooking 20 min.

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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.

Keeping: Several days in an airtight tin.

Source: From Gaston Lenôtre.

Nutritional information

	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats	Calories	Energy
Per 100 g	6 g RDI=10 %	60 g RDI=23 %	3 g RDI=5 %	302 kcal RDI=15 %	1,265 kJ RDI=15 %
Per biscuits	1 g RDI=2 %	9 g RDI=4 %	0 g	46 kcal RDI=2 %	196 kJ RDI=2 %
Whole recipe	30 g RDI=46 %	282 g RDI=107 %	17 g RDI=23 %	1,405 kcal RDI=70 %	5,884 kJ RDI=70 %