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Oddly enough, this cookie does not have its own name. Mostly they are simply called “Through a Meat Grinder” cookie.
Of course, you can form the dough into a different shape, but it will not be the same cookie. Indeed, in addition to the wonderful taste, it gives many tender memories of distant childhood. After all, this delicacy was widespread in post-Soviet times.
Shortbread through a meat grinder

  • Cooking time: 50 minutes.
  • Difficulty of the dish: easy.
  • Necessary kitchen utensils: meat grinder, oven.

Required Products:


  • Premium wheat flour: 480 gr. (3 glasses);
  • Granulated sugar: 150 gr. (1/3 of a glass);
  • Chicken egg: 2 pcs.;
  • Baking soda: half a tsp;
  • Table salt: 1 pinch;
  • Vanilla sugar: 2 tsp;
  • Butter: 150 gr.

Cookie preparation method


1. Sift the flour and add half a teaspoon of baking soda and a pinch of salt.
Sift the flour and add half a teaspoon of baking soda and a pinch of salt.

2. Mix flour, baking soda and salt thoroughly.
Mix flour, baking soda and salt thoroughly

3. Let's start combining granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and butter.
Let's start combining granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and butter

4. Grind the butter and sugar until smooth.
Cream butter and sugar until smooth

5. Gradually add eggs to sugar and butter.
Gradually add eggs to sugar and butter.

They mixed one thing, only then another.
6. Beat this mixture with a mixer until light foam.
Beat this mixture with a mixer until light foam

7.Pour the previously prepared mixture of flour, soda and salt into the whipped mixture of sugar and eggs.
Pour the previously prepared mixture of flour, soda and salt into the whipped mixture of sugar and eggs

8. Knead the dough for 5 minutes.
Knead the dough for 5 minutes

9. Place the dough in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer for 15 minutes so that the butter hardens and stops flowing.
Place the dough in a plastic bag and put it in the freezer for 15 minutes until the butter hardens and stops flowing.

During this time you should preheat the oven to 180-190°C.
10. After the allotted time has passed, roll the dough through a meat grinder.
Shortbread through a meat grinder

11. Form the cookies and place them on a baking sheet, on which you need to lay parchment paper in advance for baking.
Form cookies and place on a baking sheet

12. Bake cookies at 180-190°C for 15-20 minutes.
Baking cookies

Cookies “Through a meat grinder” are ready.
Shortbread cookies ready through a meat grinder

It tasted the way my grandmother prepared it when baking cookies in an old Russian oven: tender and crumbly.
baking cookies in an old Russian oven: tender and crumbly

Also see how to make Soviet-era cookies - https://enn.washerhouse.com/7050-pechene-na-majoneze-recept-sovetskih-vremen.html
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