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.
According to the source, these cookies are baked in Hungary on special days: wedding, Christmas, New Year. And its appearance corresponds to these holidays, and its taste: white, fluffy, delicate, airy. After reading the recipe and seeing 400 grams of flour, I thought that this amount of cookies would be just right for a wedding. I decided to cook half of this dish. When I tried it, I realized that I didn’t need a wedding or guests… I would have eaten everything myself!
I remember the times when our mothers copied recipes from each other, shared them. Thus, many recipes have become not only classic, but also truly family. They have survived to the present day. What am I doing? This cupcake, I’m sure, if it had happened during the absence of the Internet, it would have been rewritten too.
The New Year’s table always pleases with its abundance of hot dishes, salads and pastries. I would like to treat you to a hearty and juicy pie! Yeast-free dough with a rich filling of canned pink salmon, potatoes and pickled zucchini! Enjoy your meal!
I suggest baking cookies on a New Year’s theme. It turns out to be very short and delicious. And the nuts sprinkled on top will give the liver an unforgettable taste.
Another cookie from the popular Greek pastry chef Aida Petrecikis, which differs from the previously published version. If you love almonds and the most delicate creamy shortbread dough, then this cookie is just for you! And there are not so many recipes for cooking kurabiedes!
On a cold winter evening, what could be better than a cup of hot chocolate? I propose to prepare cupcakes and arrange them in the form of cups. Children will like them, and other guests will not remain indifferent.
A fragrant cupcake with a rich truffle flavor, juicy, dense crumb. I recommend cooking during the New Year holidays. It will perfectly brighten up a winter tea party after a walk in the fresh air.