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.
Remembering my parents ‘ house, I remember that my mother baked pies for all the holidays. We did not have cakes on the table in those distant times, but pies were for all tastes: with cabbage, potatoes, meat, fish, etc. I have a cake for you today, from which it is impossible to break away, a thin crust of cottage cheese dough, a delicious juicy filling, a fairy tale pie! Try baking once and it’s yours forever!
Good day, dear cooks! The most magical time of the year is coming and the brightest and most colorful holidays are coming! In our family Arsenal, there are three cupcake recipes that are completely different from each other. We always prepare them during the winter holidays. Here I hasten to You with the first recipe of the most fragrant rich chocolate-coffee cake with cognac. The taste of the cake is very rich and rich… fragrant, spicy, chocolate-velvety… Thanks to a slightly non-standard method of cooking, the structure of the cake is simply amazing.
New Year is a time of miracles, unforgettable impressions, surprises, waiting for magic and fulfillment of wishes. This cupcake fits perfectly into this amazing atmosphere. Judge for yourself: coffee gives the cupcake a charming, unique aroma; raspberries – sweetness and a light refreshing sourness; chocolate – tart, at the same time sweet and slightly burning, viscous and as if enveloping taste. What is not a miracle?!
Soft pretzels stuffed with chocolate-poppy seed cookie dough. It’s delicious! And even if the chocolate dough will ooze a little from the bagels during baking, it will only give them beauty. They are incredibly delicious, tender, flavorful. Make these pretzels for the holidays and enjoy their taste.
Cooking Christmas stollen in our family has become a good tradition. For many years now, Stollen has occupied a place of honor on our Christmas family table. Having prepared a lot of different options – I was on it. I added almond flour and homemade marzipan to the dough.
New year’s holidays are also long holidays, when you want to feed everyone delicious, but spend as little effort as possible. i suggest making a jelly pie with jam. of course, there are a lot of them, but this recipe is made with milk and with little secrets, so that it turns out tender, and the filling was in the middle.