Savoiardi - from Italian
http://dolcicreazioni.mkportal.it/index.php?topic=271.0
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http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/792848
Ingredients
- I used a recipe proposed by Pinella of Coquinaria Ingredients:
- Input:
- 110 grams of flour 00
- 40 g potato starch
- 120 g sugar
- 4 eggs
- Grated rind of a lemon
- icing sugar
- vanilla extract
Preparation
Step 1
preheat the oven to about 170 ° C
Beat the egg yolks with 20 g sugar until you get a frothy and light.
Whisk the egg whites gradually adding rain 100g sugar (I use the flavored with natural vanilla)
Stir in the egg whites to the yolks mounted working from the bottom up so as not to remove the compound, gradually incorporating the flour with the starch, always working slowly without slamming.
add the lemon zest
pour into a pastry bag with a large plain nozzle
sticks do well apart on the baking sheet of aluminum covered with parchment paper,
sprinkle with powdered sugar (with the help of a strainer)
wet hands and drop the drops of rain water on the cookies.
bake in the shelf middle of the oven until they are puffed, golden brown.