Are you as taken aback by the name of this cookie as I was? Ammonia Cookies, or ciasteczka amoniaczki in Polish, made me do a double take. It also compelled me to conduct additional research.
I knew I'd have to make Ammonia Cookies. I was just too curious. It's the explorer in me!
I want to be clear that we are discussing baking ammonia, not the bottle of ammonia you may have as a cleaning product. I'd never heard of baking ammonia, also known as ammonium bicarbonate, but I learned a lot about it.
Prior to the invention of baking powder and baking soda in the early 1800s, it was the primary leavening agent. So if you have a recipe in your family that calls for baking ammonia, it's probably an old one!
Baking ammonia has also been used as smelling salts, reviving many a fainting Victorian lady.
It's found in crisp cookies and crackers. When baked, the final product should be essentially dry. Otherwise, the unpleasant odour lingers.
It is still used in some traditional Scandinavian, Northern European, and Middle Eastern recipes, such as these ammonia cookies.
⏰ Prep Time: 20 minutes
⏰ Cook Time: 15 minutes
⏰ Total Time: 35 minutes
Ingredients:
A kilo of flour is about 1000 grams
A cup and a half of sugar
A cup and a quarter of butter
A big spoonful of ammonia
Big spoon of vanilla
8 eggs
a cup of warm water
Instructions"-
Preheat the oven to 350° F (180° C
Bring a pastry bag to make biscuits like this
How to prepare:
* We beat the ghee or butter well with an electric beater or a wire beater. We start with powdered sugar and continue beating until we get a creamy mixture.
Add eggs one at a time with vanilla and beat well
* Put the dry ingredients together, ammonia, flour and baking powder, and knead by hand
* Put the water and it will be about a cup and mix it with the dough
* Take a pastry bag and put a rectangle in it and put the dough
* In a rectangular mold, we grease it with butter, put the biscuits and we settle
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