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.
And who can say what the most Christmas taste is after tangerines and a Christmas tree, and maybe even ahead of them?! Cinnamon!!!, because it’s enough just to sprinkle it on pastries and the mood, as if by magic, becomes joyful and cheerful, like on New Year’s Eve! These buns are sure to cheer you up and give you moments of happiness. To heal.
Today I will treat you to a Slovak holiday basket, which is being prepared for Christmas and New Year. In Slovak, Christmas is called Vianoche, so the planet is called Vianochka. They eat a bath not only with butter, honey, tea and coffee, but also with smoked meats, ham and sausage. As you like, Vianoche is present on every table. There is a large selection in stores, but real housewives, of course, bake themselves, and each has its own recipe! I offer you the recipe that I liked the most.
New Year’s pastries always turn out to be unusual and very tasty. I propose to bake an interesting shortbread with the addition of walnuts. Topping for products can be made from ground nuts, cocoa powder and powdered sugar. And for the filling you will need a bar of white chocolate.
Very rich, nutty-spicy taste, with a slight sourness and lemon flavor. A truly winter, I would even say “Christmas” cake. Decorate your New Year with this unforgettable dessert!
This cake will be a great addition to the New Year’s table. It is not difficult to cook it at all if you follow the recipe. You can decorate it to your taste using meringue, gingerbread, chocolate or berries. The specified amount of ingredients is enough for a 1 kg Christmas tree.
I don’t know who has how, but I’m already in a very festive mood 🙂 Today I want to share a simple recipe for sweet bread with fragrant candied fruits, dried fruits and nuts. The dough turns out moist, and thanks to the spices it is very fragrant. The roll turns out sweet, spicy, tastes very similar to the Italian panettone pie, only it is much easier to prepare. We really liked this bread, I hope you will like it too!!
I love Christmas pastries for their flavor, for the fact that they can be baked in advance, and also they are perfect as a gift. You can start right now, so don’t put it off until later. From the resulting amount of ingredients, we will get 1 cupcake weighing 700-750 g and measuring 9 * 20 cm. But I cook a double portion at once, so we never limit ourselves to one.
On the seventh of December, my grandmother had an anniversary – she turned 95 years old!* Among the treats was this citrus pie. It is based on low-fat shortbread dough stuffed with winter fruits – orange, tangerine and grapefruit, supplemented with zest and cinnamon. The cake is suitable for everyone who observes the Christmas fast, and not only. Try