Butter Cookies / Un Kurabiyesi
The Family Story
Once upon a time, Grandma's cherished Butter Cookies brought joy to our family gatherings. Straight from Grandma's kitchen, these butter cookies are a testament to simplicity and flavour.
With just three basic ingredients; pure butter, sugar, and flour, they capture the essence of homemade goodness. While there are countless variations out there, Grandma's original recipe remains our absolute favourite.
They melt in your mouth, far better than store-bought. Share these crumbly delights with loved ones over tea or coffee, and savour moments of togetherness and tradition.
Enjoy making new memories with your family and friends, one delicious buttery cookie at a time!
Oldest and simplest Butter Cookies Recipe; buttery, crumbly, and melt-in-mouth delicious!
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Ingredients
250 g purified butter*
1 ½ cups icing sugar
3 ½ cups unbleached flour
*This recipe requires 250g of pure butter. Purifying process reduces the amount of butter. Make sure to start the process with a minimum of 280 g of butter
Notes from the Kitchen
A perfect Butter Cookies require a purified butter. The video will help you to complete this process easily.
If your dough is over soften during forming, place it in a refrigerator for 10-15 minutes for easy processing.
Method
PURIFYING THE BUTTER
From the previous day, place the regular butter into a saucepan. Bring it to a boil and boil it for 3 to 5 minutes on medium heat.
The butter will melt, boil, froth, and become translucent. By the end of this process, the butter will have a bright golden colour. Drain the butter using a strain. This method eliminates milk and other food additives in the butter. Pure butter stimulates the consistency of the dough and the flavour of the cookies.
Place the pure butter in the refrigerator to solidify again the wine leaves from the stems. Group 10-15 leaves together and place them into a wide pot.
PREPARATION
Take the butter out of the refrigerator. Divide it into small pieces while it is still cold. Place a parchment paper in an oven trayTake a 1 L clean jar with a fitted lid.
COOKIE DOUGH
In a large bowl, combine the butter and 1 ½ cups of icing sugar and knead together The butter will melt slowly with the warmth of your hand; mixture turns into a very soft dough.
At this stage, add the first two cups of flour separately while kneading. Then, add the rest of the flour in half-cup increments while continuing to knead.
You will obtain a soft and almost crumbling dough; the dough is ready to form the cookies.
FORMING
Take an orange-size cookie dough and make a ~2 by 30 cm size strip.
Then flatten the strip’ Make decorative lines on top using a fork Cut the strip diagonally into ~3 cm-sized cookies.
Then gently place on the oven tray Since the dough is very soft, cookies will be very fragile in this stage handle them with care
COOKING
Heat the oven to 380 °F Cook the butter cookies for 23 to 25 minutes in the oven; when the cooking is completed, cookies should be white in colour and hard enough to handle without damaging them.
Once cooking is completed, place the oven tray on a rack to cool down the cookies.
SERVING
Serve the cookies along with a cup of tea or coffee and a joyful chat. Socialize with pleasure!
