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.
I decided to dilute the classic taste of my favorite dessert with meringue and nuts. It turned out the most winter combination: honey, nuts, spices. This cake was baked for my eldest son’s birthday. There are no indifferent people left, and we have a new version of the cake “Custom-made”.
Soft, sweet, with the aroma of honey and spices – this cake is simply created for winter weather! It’s so nice to have a cup of tea with him after a long walk… And it is very easy to prepare, so involve children in the baking process, they will certainly be interested!
The taste of baking with cinnamon is the most Christmas, wonderful and festive. Spend half an hour and fill the house with this magical, fabulous smell, and drink tea at the same time. To heal.
New Year’s days seem to be the most wonderful, the brightest, the most mysterious… For a festive tea party, I suggest baking a cake, cottage cheese, but with nuts. To heal.
Cookies that are suitable for both a special syringe and an ordinary pastry bag with a nozzle. This is from a series of cookies for a sweet gift. This is a small shortbread cookie that will perfectly complement any hot drink, milk, etc.
Light in all respects toast bread, pleasing with its airy crumb and taste! Useful for fasting. The main thing is that the bread should be without preservatives and stored for 3-4 days in the bread box, and wrapped in food wrap – almost a month in the refrigerator. I wrote this just in case, because we ate it in one sitting with meat bread for toast!
This bread is made from very simple products, but thanks to the exact proportions and cooking technology, it turns out to be surprisingly tender and very airy, literally – like a fluff! I recommend cooking, and you will like it as much as I do!!! Great for toast, sandwiches!
Well, it seems that what else can be invented in baking lemon cupcakes? Try this option, and what if you didn’t know something? The dough for this pie takes quite a lot of lemon juice and even lemon zest, instead of sugar – powdered sugar. The cake is impregnated with lemon-sugar impregnation. Thanks to this, the taste of the cake after baking is really refreshing. I will say that everything is normal and harmonious in this cake.