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.
Potato pie is a favorite of many people. Everyone has their own recipe. But in this case, the important thing is not so much the recipe as the idea of the design.
Tangerine cookies fit very well into the concept of a New Year’s holiday. This is the aroma of the holiday, the aroma of tangerines. Bright, tender, can be stored for more than a week if you don’t eat it earlier.
I suggest the option of cooking dumplings, which will be an excellent hot dish for any holiday. Dumplings can be prepared in advance and stored in the freezer, and on the right day just bake them in cream and serve to the table.
My family loves this piece of summer in winter. Currants can be replaced with frozen cherries or blueberries. The recipe is especially useful for those who observe fasting during the New Year holidays.
The Taste of the Tropics cake has a delicate taste thanks to the classic vanilla sponge cake, curd cream similar to a cloud, coconut cream mousse and all this complements the pleasant mango compote. It turns out an incredibly delicious and tender pie.
Dear chefs, I cordially congratulate all of you on the best, magical holiday! Happy New Year! I wish you the fulfillment of all your wishes in 2020. Health and all the best to your families. Today this cake is for you.
