Hertzoggiescookies Recipes

HERTZOGGIES (COOKIES!)

Steps:

• Sift together the flour, superfine (caster) sugar, baking powder and salt.
• Rub the butter lightly into the flour with fingertips until like crumbs.
• Beat egg yolks lightly with the water, and add.
• Mix until a soft, manageable dough forms. Add a tiny bit more water if the dough is too firm.
• Knead this dough well, cover, and set aside.
• Heat oven to 180 deg C/350 deg F.
• Grease the hollows of patty pan tins, or spray with nonstick spray. (I'm talking about the shallow hollows -- not deep ones like for muffins).
• Roll the dough out thinly on a floured surface.
• Press out circles large enough to form adequate pastry crusts for the patty hollows.
• Line the patty hollows with the pastry.
• Put a small blob of jam in each crust -- about 3/4 teaspoon.
• Whip the egg whites until quite stiff.
• Slowly add the sugar and whisk well after each addition.
• Stir in the dessicated coconut.
• Put spoonsful of this filling in the patty hollows over the jam blobs. Try to do this neatly as it affects the final shape of the cookie.
• Bake the cookies 20 - 25 minutes in centre of oven.
• Cool slightly in the pans, then lift out and cool on wire racks.
• About 30 cookies.