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.
This recipe is a variation of Emily Dickinson’s Christmas cake, with my changes according to my tastes and preferences. In my opinion, this is the perfect Christmas cupcake. At the moment. All the previous recipes that I tried were more dense in structure, more often resembled a fragrant honey cake with fruit. And this pie is loose, moist. It is this structure of cupcakes that is loved in our family. But that doesn’t mean I won’t try the oven and other options. There is no limit to perfection. A set of dried fruits can be chosen to taste, but, as a rule, it should be about 400 g.
The fragrance familiar from childhood is associated with magic and the New Year. An incredibly simple recipe, you will need tangerines and a little corn flour, the cake will become more crumbly and fragrant.
Turkish samsa “Birds of Happiness” is the thinnest, very delicate dough and a lot of filling. This samsa is small in size, so it can be served as a snack on a festive table.
This name is a bit of a joke, I have such cupcakes. Everyone is familiar with the situation when on the 3rd-5th day of the New year’s eve there is a bottle of champagne that no one wants to drink. The remains of peeled tangerines, which the children did not finish, are scattered around the apartment. That’s when you can cook these delicious, tender, fragrant cupcakes.
We will need a lot of desserts, cakes and pies to celebrate the New Year holidays, for guests and friends. Try my version of cooking on an open fire! The dough turns out crumbly, the filling is delicious! Amazing! Come in, treat yourself.
Like everything New Year’s, baking seems to be the most magical, fragrant, festive. This is not inferior to anything, except that only Easter cakes. I suggest you please your guests with a tea party with these buns. I guarantee they’ll like it.
