Starchies (Sequilhos/Biscoitos de maizena) from Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s (page 49) by B. Dylan Hollis

  • sweetened condensed milk
  • cornstarch
  • Serves : 24

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  • Sparkles75 on August 22, 2023

    This was the first recipe I made too and I agree with AngelNewsi. There is something very interesting about these cookies but my first thought when tasting was “there is too much cornflour in these” but I could see these being deceptively delicious if the ratio was correct. I had never heard of these so will investigate other versions to try

  • AngelNewsi on August 13, 2023

    The recipe is super simple to make, which is great, but the ingredient ratios are off. The initial flavor was wonderful, but the cookie soon turned to cement as I chewed and sucked all the moisture out of my mouth. By the end, all you could taste was raw cornstarch. My husband looked up similar recipes and found that most called for a quarter-cup less cornstarch than this did. There's also no done indicator in the instructions so I had to guess when to pull them out of the oven. I do plan to try again, but with the lower cornstarch amount.

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