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.
Tender, delicious and very simple puffs with prune filling. Aurel Bronte writes that in the traditional recipe, the dough is quite complicated, so at Christmas most people cook it together with their children from purchased puff pastry.
Amazingly delicious sponge cake with oranges in caramel! Treat yourself and your loved ones with this wonderful cake! No one will remain indifferent for sure!
There is a huge amount of festive pastries, delicious and fragrant. All housewives try to please their loved ones. So, I offer you one of the options. A spicy, citrus-scented and delicious-tasting cupcake with dried apricots, tangerine juice and dates, without preliminary aging, will delight you at a festive tea party (does not contain alcohol – it is possible for children)
New Year and citrus flavors, especially tangerines, are two inseparable concepts. We will please the guests, bake a cake with kumquat and tangerines, I assure you – it’s festive, fragrant, delicious! Help yourself, Happy New Year!
Traditionally, these crescent-shaped cookies are baked at Christmas. Add nut flour, often almond flour. I decided to add coconut chips, it unobtrusively stands out and gives the liver friability.
Cookies are very soft and delicious! Very chocolate and, in my opinion, very New Year’s. We called it “New Year”. You will have to work a little, but the admiration of relatives and friends is guaranteed to you.
