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.
Homemade cottage cheese pastries turn out to be so delicious and fragrant! Soft, tender, airy cottage cheese dough and honey-nut filling is just a fairy tale! Please your family and friends with a wonderful cottage cheese basket with nut filling – it’s very tasty!
Incredibly delicious and original muffins! They are so sunny and orange, like autumn itself! Pumpkin goes well with orange and vanilla. From the aroma of this baking -you can go crazy)
I offer a recipe for an insanely delicious strawberry cake. Shortbread cakes stuffed with airy meringue and strawberries and delicious custard strawberry cream will not leave anyone indifferent! Also, instead of strawberries, you can take any berries or fruits: raspberries, cherries, kiwis, blueberries, apricots, peaches. The cake turns out great, it will become a real decoration of the festive table!
I invite you to tea with a fruity, juicy cake. The aroma of baked grapes and other fruits is fantastic, even flavorings are not needed!!! P.S. when there is no time to prepare the dough, the pie helps.
Apples come and go into the house and… quickly deteriorate. Look for pies where there is a little more filling and not enough dough. The dough turns out suspiciously liquid, but… everyone in the family is happy with the result!
Today I want to share with you a recipe for an unusual cake, easy to prepare, which even a novice hostess can handle, a minimum of products, maximum pleasure. The dough of three components, without eggs, is very tender. In the process of cooking, it turns out with a golden crust. The filling of two types of onions will drive even those who do not like onions crazy. In the process of cooking, the top of the pie with smoked sausage cheese is covered with a beautiful crust and exudes such an aroma that all the neighbors run together. The husband came home from work, asked from the threshold: “And what is it that smells so delicious here?” Having tried this pie once, you will cook it again and again.
Delicious cupcakes with cashew nuts and dried cherries. Well, you understand that additives here can be very diverse. I also “played” with the top of these muffins: sprinkled with crumbs from puff cakes, sugar and marmalade balls. With the child I liked the most. They look like some kind of “fluffy”, more cozy. The marmalade balls just drowned. Sugar did not greatly change the texture of the top, but also gave it a rough look.