This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is yet another rugelach by another name (see: “Friendship Cookies“). Basically it’s a cream cheese pastry, rolled out into a circle,”filled” with something and then cut into triangles and rolled into little crescent shapes.
Dorie says:
Although these look like rugelach and are made like rugelach, the traditional cream cheese dough harbors a surprise — Triscuit crumbs — and the filling packs some heat. It’s a mix of mustard and Major Grey’s chutney, a somewhat sweet, variably spicy, jammy blend of mango and ginger. (I use mild chutney, but you can go hotter, if you’d like.)
Now I didn’t have TWO of the major ingredients (no pun intended!) for these but I improvised! I used some salty crackers (not Triscuits) and just regular mango chutney because that’s what we had on hand (AND I finished a jar – hurrah!). My dough definitely wasn’t as it would have been with Triscuits because the crackers I used had less texture but it worked out ok. The filling. Hmmm. Mustard and what sounds like spicy chutney (well, spicy from ginger)? I don’t know. I DO know that mustard and the regular chutney was on the sweet side so this wasn’t exactly the savoury cookie I was expecting.
I made 1/4 of the recipe and this made 8 “cookies”that were larger than I think they are meant to be – around 8cm in length. This seems longer that in the photo and from other rolled cookies we’ve made but the dough was rolled as thin as it needed to be so maybe the dough goes further than the recipe says?
So, how were they? Well, as Gaye said, “I liked these but didn’t love them. I would not make them again, but if someone presented these in a bowl as nibbles at a party, I would happily eat them.”
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How could we not have any Major Grey’s in the house? I’m slightly embarrassed. 😉
I don’t understand the reference to Major Grey… what’s its origin?
It’s a brand of chutney!
Hahaha – yep, these were ok but they did not light my cookie fire. Your cookies are so neat compared to mine. My dough stuck everywhere and I tried to get too many out of a small batch of dough.
I think the Triscuits helped…they gave it almost a cornbread texture. That is what they reminded us of.
Glad you were able to finish a jar, always nice to use up those bits. Your rolls look perfect.
gosh–yours look so much better than mine did! haha. i thought these were tasty, but i rarely have triscuits or chutney, so making them was probably just a one-off for me as well.