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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

Keywords for this recipe:Biscuit Pink Reims Champagne

For 30 biscuits, you will need:

1 3 eggs
2 140 ml caster sugar
3 195 ml flour
4 5 drops food colouring
5 50 ml icing sugar

Change these quantities to make: 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.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Beat together the yolks of 3 eggs with 140 ml 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 195 ml 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.

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 €

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Note : These prices are only approximate.

Source

From Gaston Lenôtre.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Corsican tarts, Chocolate mousse with hazelnuts, Vanilla sugar, Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, Corsican tarts, ... All
	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cornmeal baps for Anne, Pitta bread, Chestnut cake, Hamburgers, Grated potato cakes, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tarte Normande, Finger biscuits, Walnut short bread, Walnut paste, Pistachio madeleines, ... All
	Food colouring: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Peach and green tea tart, Fresh mint ice-cream, Strawberry feuilleté, Lime meringue tart, Lime (or lemon) curd, ... All

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