Shortbread pastry dough on margarine

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. These products will always be found in the refrigerator of caring housewives. In addition to the simplicity and speed of making shortbread dough and baking from it, it should be noted as a merit and its budget, because margarine is a very cheap product. Melt the creamy margarine in the microwave and let it cool to room temperature.

2. Step 2:

   

   In a bowl with melted margarine, add sugar and beat in a chicken egg. With a whisk or spoon, rub the ingredients until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a bowl with a liquid mixture, pour the sifted wheat flour mixed with baking powder. Instead of baking powder, you can use soda, slaked with table vinegar, taken in identical parts (one third of a teaspoon). Note that more or less flour may be required: it all depends on the size of the egg and the properties of the flour itself. Focus on the consistency of the dough!

5. Step 4:

   

   Mix the ingredients and knead the elastic smooth dough. It is not necessary to knead the shortbread dough with your hands for a long time, otherwise the cookies will turn out hard and hard. The main task is to collect the dough into a ball.

6. Step 5:

   

   Wrap the dough in plastic wrap or a bag and put it in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. The dough needs to be cooled so that the margarine contained in the dough freezes a little, and the dough becomes plastic and malleable in operation. Otherwise, it will be difficult to roll it out and make a beautiful curly shortbread. We take the rested dough out of the refrigerator, roll it out on the floured work surface and cut out the cookie blanks with curly cuts.