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.
The dough with the addition of rye flour goes well with the filling. A hearty, but not “heavy” biscuit is especially good in a warm form – delicious juice flows out of it. But the next day it was great, the dough remained soft.
Oatmeal biscuits with apple are prepared without butter. The recipe for the dough is not sweet, but apple pie, that’s what I liked. If you want more sweetness, then add 2 tablespoons of sugar to the dough.
My experience in making cookies is not too great, but I’ll tell you what – this is the most delicious biscuit! Delicate crispy dough, nutty paste and fruit filling with caramel notes is super! You can add a ball of ice cream to a piece of warm biscuits, sprinkled with caramel sprinkles, and it will be “just some kind of holiday!”.
A very quick and very simple recipe. From the series “Guest on the threshold”. 10 minutes for cooking and 20 for baking. And the result is simply amazing! Incredibly delicious cake! It has one drawback – it turns out to be too small. Baked for three days in a row. Jamie Oliver’s recipe.
I like biscuits, open pies or jelly pies. I like this little dough, and by the way, my favorite dough is shortbread and lots of fillings. I offer a recipe for delicious lean shortbread cookies with vegetables. To be honest, I fell in love with this dough, I liked it more than butter. Very tender, crumbly and with vegetables.. just a story.
Since mushroom abundance continues in our region, and traditional methods of cooking mushrooms have been exhausted, I decided to bake galetta with mushrooms.
Galetta is a flat open pie. All kinds of fillings are put on a pancake or flatbread – berries, fruits, meat, cheese, fish… The sides of the pie are formed with fingers. Simple and very tasty pastries. Imagine the bottom – a thin layer of crispy dough, ruddy sides, juicy spicy filling…
Summer, greenery, country holidays… The best time of the year! Whim and peace, how can there be no sweets? Too simple and too damn delicious!!! Crispy, juicy biscuits! Sweet and sour blackberries on a sweet fruit pillow.
Delicious, crumbly sand pie with juicy fragrant filling. This is my impromptu. I bought rosemary for lamb legs, it turned out to be too much, so I decided to cook something sweet with this herb. It’s been interesting for a long time how it turns out – a combination of rosemary and sweet filling. It turned out very tasty, fragrant, exotic.