The art of french pastry phần 398

binds all the ingredients in the dough together and makes it firmer due to the gluten activation If you cook the egg yolks you eliminate some of the water in the mixture This makes the raw dough more difficult to roll out and the baked cookie more crumbly because there is less gluten activation The good news is that you do not have to roll out this dough; instead you put it straight into a cookie press If you do not have a cookie press, you can shape the dough into a log and cut round cookies They won’t look like traditional spritz but they will taste great My siblings and I know a lot about making spritz cookies From the time we were tall enough to reach the top of a worktable we were allocated the task of making them My dad would make 25 pounds of dough the day before, and our job was to press out the spritz cookies after we came back from school, while he was napping We would place the dough in a manual meat grinder fitted with a star-shaped attachment, a system that resembles toy clay extruders The meat grinder was carefully attached to the wooden worktable One of us would fill the opening of the machine with dough and turn the hand crank while another would catch the cookies as they came out and press and place them in rows on large sheet pans It was a very efficient way to make the cookies, but at the time it seemed more like forced labor than fun Twenty-five pounds of dough felt like 2,000 We would bicker about who should be doing what, and eventually we would switch jobs because our arms would hurt from the heavy cranking Every once in a while someone would clip the end of a finger on the ... were tall enough to reach the top of a worktable we were allocated the task of making them My dad would make 25 pounds of dough the day before, and our job was to press out the spritz cookies after we... worktable One of us would fill the opening of the machine with dough and turn the hand crank while another would catch the cookies as they came out and press and place them in rows on large sheet... would place the dough in a manual meat grinder fitted with a star-shaped attachment, a system that resembles toy clay extruders The meat grinder was carefully attached to the wooden worktable One of us would