Paula Wolfert's Couscous Book Recipe Needed
Tracy Karachi
I am looking for the recipe for "Gazelle Horns". I lent my copy to someone
and never got it back...(never do that again!).
Does anyone have a copy and would be willing to type up the recipe?
They are almond filled cresent shaped cookies and this is the only book
where I've seen the recipe.
Thanks,
Tracy
Here's a recipe for Chewy Brownie Cookies that are easy and good.
(found on SOAR)
2/3 c Crisco
1 1/2 c packed brown sugar
1 Tbls water
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1 1/2 all purpose flour
1/3 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
2 c semi sweet chocolate chips
Preheat 350 F
Sift together dry ingredients and set aside. Beat shortening, brown sugar,
water and vanilla on medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Add
eggs; beat well. Gradually add flour mixture to eggs, beating on low till
just blended. Stir in chips. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart
in ungreased baking sheet. Bake 7-9 minutes. Cookies will appear soft and
moist. Do not overbake. Cool 2 minutes and remove to cooling rack.
Makes about 3 dozen.
Liz B
"Tracy Karachi" <tkar...@brandeis.edu> wrote
>I am looking for the recipe for "Gazelle Horns". I lent my copy to someone
>and never got it back...(never do that again!).
>Does anyone have a copy and would be willing to type up the recipe?
Apologies if this is a dupe, I haven't seen it yet, but my newsservice is
slow sometimes.
From 'Couscous and Other Good Foods From Morocco' by Paula Wolfert, 1973,
Harper & Row
Gazelle Horns
for the almond paste
4T or more sweet butter, melted and cooled
1/2 lb blanched almonds, finely ground
1/2 tsp almond extract
3/4 to 1 cup confectioners sugar
1. Mix the cooled melted butter with the ground blanched almonds and
almond flavoring. Add the sugar, then mix well and knead to a solid,
well-blended mass. Divide into four equal parts. Chill.
for the pastry
2 1/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3 T sweet butter, melted
pinch of salt
orange flower water (optional)
confectioners sugar (optional)
1. Make a firm dough with the flour, 2 T melted butter, and about 1 cup
lukewarm water. (In very rich Morrocan homes orange flower water is used.)
Add a pinch of salt. Knead at least 20 minutes, until silky and elastic.
(If you have a mixing machine with a dough hook attachment, knead on slow
speed 12 minutes.)
2. Preheat the oven to 325F
3. Seperate the dough into 4 equal parts. Grease 3 of the parts with a
little melted butter and cover with a slightly damp cloth. Roll out the
remaining dough on a lightly buttered surface with a lightly buttered
rolling pin, into a long strip, pushing with the rolling pin to stretch the
dough. Make half turns with the dough, rolling in both directions. Dust
with flour if the dough seems too sticky, but only very lightly. As you
roll, wrap the dough around the wooden rolling pin to help stretching,
being very careful not to break the dough. Roll and stretch until you have
the thinness of cardboard.
4. Place the long strip horizontally in front of you. Using one part of
the chilled almond paste, roll 1 1/4 teaspoons of it at a time between your
palms to make sausage shapes 1 3/4 inches long - thicker in the center and
tapered at the ends. Place the almond paste cylinders in a row, 1 inch up
from the lower edge of the dough and about 2 inches apart. Stretch the
sheet of dough below the almond paste as thin as possible and fold over the
paste to cover it completely. Press the dough together to seal. Cut with
the pastry wheel around each mold to form a crescent horn shape. Repeat
with the remaining dough.
5. Pick up each horn and, pressing lightly with the second and third
finger and thumb of each hand, shape it into a crescent. Prick each horn
with a needle twice, to prevent puffing and splitting. Place them on a
baking sheet, and bake 10-15 minutes or until very pale gold in color. Do
not allow the crescents to brown or they will harden. The crusts should be
rather soft but will crisp slightly upon cooling. Sprinkle at once with
orange flower water and roll in confectioners sugar if desired.
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