The dough can be of different types: yeast, puff pastry, biscuit, shortbread, cottage cheese, pastry, unleavened, simple, etc. Before you prepare the dough, decide what you need: they all differ in technology and cooking time, the composition of products and the type of dishes for which they are intended. For example, for fried pies, the usual dough without yeast is suitable, for buns – butter, for pies – any of the above, including unleavened, if it is unsweetened pastries.
For a well-prepared dough at home, concentrate on choosing the right flour. For dishes that require pomp, lightness and lightness, flour of the highest grade is necessary. For those that are simpler, the first or second grade is suitable. Wheat flour is used more often in baking, but recently housewives like to combine it with other types or even replace it with rye, corn, oatmeal – due to lower calorie content and higher digestibility.
Also, you should always sift the flour twice, even if you are cooking something simple like tacos tortillas or lasagna sheets. This is a necessary habit for a good cook. Also, all dry ingredients are mixed with each other, then all mixed wet ingredients are added to them. This can happen the other way around, it all depends on what a specific test recipe requires at home. Mixing is carried out in small portions, gradually. With this approach, the dough is saturated evenly, there are no lumps.
Always knead the dough clockwise, collecting it from the edges to the center. This will greatly simplify the cooking process. Roll out the rolling pin, if it is required, sprinkle with flour, the same with a table or board. If you knead with your hands, lubricate them with vegetable oil – the dough will not stick. The airiness of the dough is given by yeast, soda and baking powder. Soda can be extinguished in any acidic liquid: vinegar, lemon juice, kefir – this will save your baking from an unpleasant soda taste.
Aromatic, decadent, celebratory, visually stunning, and incredibly delicious! Christmas stollen is a traditional German pastry crafted from yeast-based dough. What sets it apart is the practice of allowing the finished stollen to stand for several weeks, a process that unveils its remarkable taste and aroma.
I decided to combine my favorite flavors in one pie: coffee and lemon. We liked it. Sour cream turned out to be the softest, most delicate, with an unobtrusive coffee taste and a long lemon aftertaste. Come visit.
Not to bake a biscuit with a berry in the summer is a crime, yes, yes… In order not to be “arrested”, we will bake mini biscuits with raspberries and almonds, as in a pastry shop on the banks of the Seine. I recommend it.
The usual shortbread dough, cheese filling…, the usual snack for Swedes with wine or something favorite. The taste will not disappoint. Thanks to I. Stromberg for the recipe!
I offer the Cooks delicious Turkish pastries, the filling of which is wrapped in a thin dough, and then placed in a spiral in a baking dish. Berek is prepared with different fillings, but I decided to combine different fillings in one pie. Come on in, try it 🙂
A simple, affordable cake for an afternoon tea party. Of course, in the season we take fresh plums and rhubarb, I took it from the freeze. The shape is 24 cm in diameter, the height of the pie in the center is 5 cm
These are not pies or cheesecakes, but lovers of buckwheat and all cottage cheese will like it! Especially if you dip it in sour cream. And they are also good for a snack in the heat.
I bring to your attention a Limburg pie, which combines a sandy-yeast dough with a sweet fruit or berry filling. Today I prepared this pie with black currant. It turned out very tasty and vitamin-rich!
Meat pie is a casserole, very similar in appearance to an apple “Charlotte”. The pie has a tender meat cake, while it holds its shape well (even hot) and does not crumble. Breadcrumbs on the surface of the pie give a pleasantly crisp crust.
Torta salata con carciofi e patate – Pie on puff pastry with potatoes, cheese and artichokes. In the original, the dough is a Breeze (poor)shortbread dough with the addition of water and without eggs), I was too lazy to mess with it)) I love all kinds of salty pies and cook them often, looking for new options. The pie is prepared very simply, my family is very happy with the result. Cook for your health!