These ingredients were listed on a cookie pack available in the market.
I would like to know what combinations of the following ingredients can be used to produce around 200gms cookies?
Wheat flour
Sugar
Vanaspati
Edible Oil
Atta
Ajwain
Glucose
Salt
Custard
Milk powder
Synthetic colour
Leaving Agents
Permitted flavor and Emulsifier Agents
Wheat flour should be read as all purpose flour.
Questions:
- What sugar should be used? White or Brown?
- Can vanaspati be replaced with anything (clarified butter)?
- Custard refers to custard powder or the custard which is ready to eat?
- Why is glucose needed when the sugar is already there?
- What should be added as Emulsifier Agents?
- Water isn't mentioned here but should I assume that it is needed?
Besides for preparing 200gms "crispy" cookies roughly what quantity of each of the ingredient should be added?
Best Answer
It is nearly impossible to reverse engineer an industrial cookie recipe from its ingredient list directly--especially without the final product to compare to.
Some of the ingredients may be unique to the industrial process (such as "glucose" or "emulsifiers"), hard to obtain, or proprietary. Some of the steps may require special processing or equipment.
Furthermore, your local labeling laws may be different than other places, so we would not know how to interpret this list of ingredients. For example, in the US, the ingredients would have to be listed in order, by weight.
Instead, you should search for recipes that produce the kind of cookies you want that are designed for the home kitchen.
I cannot speak to local products in India, but here in the US there are many web sites or blogs where authors try to recreate recipes of popular commercial food products. These recipes are designed for the home kitchen, and may not have the exact same ingredients or techniques as the commercial product on which they are modeled, but are instead designed to have similar outcomes. I don't know if such sites exist in India, but I would suggest searching to see what you can find; failing that, I would search based on the name of the cookie for recipes for this type of cookie.
In terms of some of the specific questions: