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CORRENTINE ALFAJORS

INGREDIENTS

  • Time:
  • – 3 yolks.
  • – 100 g of frequent sugar.
  • – 25 g of honey.
  • – 1 pinch of salt.
  • – 1 cdita of vanilla essence.
  • – 1 cdita of citrus zest.
  • – 100 g of butter.
  • – 250 g of cassava starch (or 200 g of cassava starch and 50 g of corn).
  • – 1/2 tsp baking powder.
  • Stuffed:
  • – Candy or mamón jam or Candy or guava or quince jam.
  • Swiss yerba mate meringue:
  • – 100 g of egg whites.
  • – 200 g of frequent sugar.
  • – 80 g of roughly icing or impalpable sugar.
  • – 1 tablespoon of yerba mate powder.

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PROCEDURE:

1. In a bowl, beat the yolks properly with the sugar, salt, essence, zest and honey.
2. Add the sifted combination of cassava starch, corn starch and baking powder.
3. Kind a sandblasting. Add the chilly butter reduce into cubes till you acquire a homogeneous dough.
4. Place within the fridge for not less than 2 hours earlier than utilizing it.
5. As soon as very chilly, stretch the dough with a rolling pin and with a chopping fringe of 6
cm in diameter, kind the lids that can go on a greased and floured plate in an oven at 170°/180°C for roughly 8 to 10 minutes or till the sides of the lids are a bit of golden.
6. Let cool on a rack. Reserve in an hermetic container.
7. For the candy mamón or quayaba, drain the syrup and mash with a fork till you acquire a puree.
8. Fill one lid and canopy with one other to kind the alfajor.

Swiss yerba mate meringue:
1. Combine the egg whites with the frequent sugar and place in a double boiler till the sugar dissolves or till it reaches 60°C.
2. Beat with an electrical mixer at full pace till a meringue is fashioned.
very agency. With the gradual mixer, add the powdered sugar and the tablespoon of yerba mate powder.
3. Cowl the alfajores and allow them to dry on a rack or in a really low oven at 40°C.