Pastries are aromas for the whole house, comfort, delicious tea and the joy of home. Kneading the dough, the hostess puts into it sincerity and love, the brightest thoughts and good wishes.
Baking can be yeast, pastry, puff pastry, with and without fillings, and baked dough products differ in shape and size. If you take such dishes from all the peoples of the world and cook at home one a day, it will take decades.
Flour is needed for baking. It can be either white (bread) or whole grain. Wheat, barley, corn, buckwheat, millet, oatmeal, nut – all are kneaded. Be sure to sift it. This will give the dough an extra dose of oxygen, and an additional operation will give your dish even more love. There are special devices-mills for home production of flour mixtures. To do this, it is enough to take the right grain and grind it. It turns out both cheaper and more natural.
It is impossible to predict what to knead pastries on as a basis. Water, milk, yogurt, ayran, sour cream, butter and vegetable oils, beer – each of the liquids gives its own taste and texture. For some recipes, the room temperature of the ingredients is important, for working with yeast it is better to take warmer.
As for the molding, the training will help, especially for sticky dough masses – dexterity and a scraper. It’s good to start with a simple non–sticky medium hardness – pies, bagels.
It’s cold and overcast outside, and a pleasant aroma of apple pastries comes from my oven – these are delicious, tender, airy, moderately sweet puffs. I used ready-made puff pastry without yeast, and apple mousse as a filling, then I made a leaf pattern on the layer so that the baking would remind me of the warmth and charm of the outgoing autumn.
This dish reflects the richness of the autumn harvest: zucchini, pumpkin, mushrooms, tomatoes… And how delicious! This vegetable basket is good as a warm or cold snack.
To diversify the food, I bought different vegetables and decided to stuff them with rice, and then bake the whole family in one form in the oven. The result was excellent.
