Ingredients:

— 1 tbsp sugar

— 3 eggs

— 0.5 tsp baking soda + vinegar or lemon juice for quenching

— 250 gr. butter or margarine

— 2.5-3 tbsp flour

Preparation:

Cut the butter or margarine into several pieces and let it stand to soften well. In a large bowl, start (preferably with a mixer) beating eggs with sugar, add the quenched soda, beat again, then put the butter (or margarine) and chop it as finely as possible, then beat again until everything becomes homogeneous! You can slowly add flour! Add until it is convenient to beat the dough with a mixer, then add the remaining flour a little, but we continue to stir with a spoon! When it also becomes difficult to stir with a spoon, we pour the dough into the remaining flour (push a little flour aside, add if necessary) and begin to knead with our hands! The dough should NOT be elastic! It will remain soft, but it should not stick to your hands. If it still sticks, add a little more flour (from the postponed one) and knead, after a couple of repetitions it will become the desired consistency.

The finished dough should be covered with a film and put in the refrigerator.

Meanwhile, turn on the oven, preheat to 200 degrees. Screw on the meat grinder! Sprinkle the baking sheet with flour or paper and take the dough out of the refrigerator and cut off about a quarter, put the rest back in the refrigerator.

We give the dough the shape of a «sausage» and start passing it through a meat grinder. When the dough begins to come out, we wait until it drops 5-7 centimeters and then lift it from the bottom with our hand and cut it with a knife. This way the correct shape is obtained!-fluffy flower and base. We put it on a baking sheet. To trace. The «flower» also turned out to be beautiful, it is necessary to clean the remains of the dough from the «grill» of the meat grinder! When the dough in the meat grinder ends, add more from the refrigerator and continue! Try to do everything faster so that the dough does not start to melt on the table and lose its shape!

When the baking sheet is filled, put it in the oven and make sure it is ready! The average cooking time is 35-40 minutes.

Cooled cookies can be sprinkled with powdered sugar!