Yay, fried cookies!
OK, these are only a first attempt, there is still some refining to do, but finally I know how to make these.
In Japanese they are called senbei, in Chinese jianbing. This is the sweet variety, there is also a salty version that in English is sometimes called "rice cracker". And in Chinese there is even a kind of pancake under the same name, so finding a recipe isn't easy.
To get them this way, you need to put them between baking sheets and need a second baking tray to put on top. This kind of cookie often comes with imprints, how to do that is another problem still to solve.
5 comments:
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Sounds a bit like Johnnycakes (which are traditionally made with cornmeal but you can make them with wheat flour too.)
Ms Kat I had to look that one up. So apparently those are not the cakes Johnny gets to eat when he comes marching home. But from what Wikipedia told me, they are also different from these, as these are hard cookies, one layer, sometimes decorated with peanuts or seaweed etc.
Olaf Fichtner I've never made them myself but they made some on a BBQ on River Cottage Australia, and it was just fried dough (flour & water) that had been rolled out and cut out with a biscuit/cookie cutter.
Actually, I found a video of it! http://www.lifestylefood.com.au/recipes/24143/wattleseed-johnny-cakes-with-golden-syrup
Ms Kat Ah, interesting! But still different: These here contain eggs, butter, sugar and flour (and soy sauce, but next time I'll try without). Also very important is to not just put them on a baking pan, but to put a baking sheet on top and another pan on top of that, to keep them flat. The Johnnycakes seem to grow at least a little in volume.
I noticed that the pan on top does not just keep them flat, but also gives them a darker tan. There were areas that were thinner, not touched by the upper pan, and came out lighter.
So, not bad for a quick first-time experiment, at least I didn't set the house on fire. Besides, my zoo likes them, so they must be relatively similar to the regular ones.
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