Hygiene in Christmas baking

22-Nov-2019 - Germany

Pre-Christmas is cookie time, but there is a lot to consider! Can raw cookie dough be eaten? What about the ice snow sugar icing at the gingerbread house? And which industrious baker does not know it - the problem of the surplus egg yolks or proteins with some recipes. We give tips on how to use them well.

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Raw cookie dough - Cookie Dough

Cookie Dough, pronounced like "cookie dou", is a trend from America that can be bought today in selected refrigerated shelves in supermarkets and especially via the Internet. This is a cookie dough that is eaten raw. Here, too, the enjoyment of raw dough is finding more and more friends, because who doesn't love to lick off the stirrers while baking?! Cookie Dough is, however, served as scoops and eaten like ice cream.
This raw dough is slightly different from most cookie doughs that are baked afterwards. Baking powder is not used as the dough should not rise. A Cookie Dough dough does not necessarily have to contain eggs, pasteurised eggs are used for a dough with eggs. There's always flour in the dough. Raw flour may also contain small amounts of pathogens. It is cleaned in the mill, but then it is not "sterile". This is no big deal, as the pathogens are normally rendered harmless during baking. The flour is therefore heat-treated in the commercial production of Cookie Dough. Without this treatment, the product would spoil very quickly and become a small "germ catapult".
Who would like to try the trend sweet once, must pay attention to a few things. Carefully heat the flour for a few minutes in the microwave or on a baking tray in the oven. Who wants to use eggs, can find pasteurized eggs in the supermarket. Then simply mix your favourite ingredients such as chocolate, nuts, sprinkles, pieces of biscuit etc. and the personal Cookie Dough is ready.
In order to be able to eat the raw dough of "normal" cookies when baking, doughs with eggs should be better avoided. In addition, only small quantities should be eaten. Otherwise, unpleasant symptoms such as vomiting, nausea, headaches and diarrhoea may occur a few hours after consumption. In most cases this is due to salmonella, which sits on the shell of the eggs and enters the food during the preparation of the dough. However, washing the raw eggs significantly increases the risk of salmonella in the egg - contrary to the actual logic! In general, fresh eggs should be used for baking as far as possible, especially when it comes to food that is not or not completely heated through.

The house of Santa Claus

Gingerbread houses are especially popular with children and are carefully decorated. One thing is particularly important for the stability of the colourful houses - a good "cement". A mixture of egg whites and icing sugar is used for this purpose. The beaten egg white is made from raw egg white. But the all-clear can be given here. Due to the large amount of sugar, salmonella cannot survive here, so it can be bricked and eaten without hesitation.

Tips for surplus proteins and egg yolks

Recipes often require egg white and egg yolk in unequal proportions or even only one of both. What then remains are the remnants of a component. These can be avoided by baking two recipes at the same time, which complement each other well with regard to the egg components. Egg yolk and egg white can also be stored in the refrigerator for two to three days in a closed container. Who has no suitable recipes, can bake meringue from the protein. Decorated with chocolate, nuts, or almonds, these little delicacies are also a pretty sight on the biscuit plate. If there is egg yolk left, it can be used together with milk and spices to make scrambled eggs to strengthen the hard-working bakers.

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