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.
I offer another recipe for tender, delicious and easy-to-prepare muffins. They turn out lush and porous. The taste will not disappoint you. To keep the cupcakes fresh for a long time, add nuts or starch to them.
I present my “duty” pudding for afternoon tea – a minimum of work, and the result exceeds all expectations: everyone likes it, from young to old. And most importantly, it’s very tasty.
I want to offer a tender, fragrant, juicy pie. It is prepared with canned apricots (can be replaced with peaches) and fruit pudding. To make a fruit pudding, use apricot syrup and apple juice.
The apple season has finally arrived. And so I want to cook something new, but not apple pie. Here’s a recipe I found in a German magazine. I like it. I decided to share it with you. You won’t regret it!
In this recipe, I propose to cook the famous Spanish rolls called “Ensaimadas”, which are prepared in the form of a spiral. The buns contain a filling inside, according to this recipe, a chocolate pudding is obtained.
Very fragrant and delicious, a real winter pie! For a long time I doubted whether to put it up for a competition, having seen what masterpieces our chefs prepare, but still decided. In our family, the New Year is always accompanied by the purchase of citrus fruits, especially tangerines, and I always bake some kind of pie with them. This cake is one of my favorites. Fruit in the pudding filling and crispy crust on top – I’m sure you’ll like this tandem!
Cake is a confection popular in Western Ukraine and Poland. As a rule, it is baked in a rectangular shape. I suggest making a pie with apples and custard pudding. It is gentle, light enough and unobtrusively sweet. Just what you need on New Year’s Eve! And yet this cake has a wonderful slicing!
