In today's hustle and bustle, a modern woman cannot devote enough time to cooking and baking. Moreover, ready-made, attractive dough products simplify this task. Even cakes on a biscuit or honey cake can be bought ready-made, it is enough to apply a cream, which can also not be cooked, but buy a powder in a pack.
But purchased pastries can never be compared to homemade. After all, sweet aromas are spread throughout the district to the envy of all the neighbors!
Especially tasty is the brushwood - it is the taste of childhood, everyone’s surely remembers the crunch of this baking. There are other names for this dish, for example, crunchy or vergunov. This cookie got its name due to the fact that it is very thin and crispy. In order for it to turn out just like that, you need to follow proven recipes. If you do not know how to bake brushwood, then the recipes below will certainly help you.
How to bake brushwood?
Ingredients:
- kefir 1 cup;
- egg 1 pc.;
- sugar 3 tbsp. l .;
- sunflower oil - 3 tablespoons;
- salt (on the tip of a knife);
- flour - (usually 3 cups);
- vanillin or vanilla sugar;
- powdered sugar (tablespoons);
- cooking oil.
Cooking
Grind sugar with egg and salt, add kefir and sunflower oil, soda and beat again (you can with a mixer). With a sieve, sift the flour and gradually pour it in, while stirring all the time.
After you knead the dough, let it stand for 20 minutes, cover with a towel and set aside in a warm place. While the dough is infused, do not waste time, make icing sugar. When the dough is infused, divide it into two equal parts and begin to roll out so that you get a thin rectangular sheet. Then cut the dough into medium rectangles, and make holes in the middle. Through these holes, twist one part of the rectangle to the other side.
While you are doing these simple maneuvers, the oil (a large amount) in the pan should already be heated. You just have to fry your rectangles on both sides.
After putting the finished brushwood on a flat plate, sprinkle it with plenty of icing sugar. Although this is a matter of taste, some do not like powder. Now you know how to bake brushwood according to the recipe itself, but there are other options for cooking it.
Many are interested in how to bake brushwood from batter. Let's try to answer this question.
Dough brushwood recipe
Take: wheat flour (sifted), 5 tbsp. powdered sugar, eggs (6 pieces), salt, milk 3 cups.
Separate the yolks from the proteins and beat, mix them with flour, milk, sugar and salt. Beat the whites and also add to the liquid mass. The consistency of the dough should be very liquid - it should be easily transferred from one dish to another. Heat the oil in a pan to a boil, then direct the dough into a boiling oil with a thin stream. You can use a small kettle with a narrow nose for this. It should be a kind of pattern. When the brush is browned, it should be removed and put on a napkin - this removes excess oil. Now you need to sprinkle it with powdered sugar. There is nothing easier than to make brushwood from batter! Bon Appetit!
You can cook brushwood with syrup, which you need to water the finished brushwood. For syrup, take: honey (150 grams), water (70 gr), a spoonful of lemon or lime juice. Mix all the ingredients and cook over very low heat under the lid until a sufficiently thick consistency. Then grease the finished, but still warm, brushwood with such syrup and sprinkle with a mixture of grated walnut and cinnamon.
When using syrup, it is recommended to add less sugar to the dough itself - the syrup will add sweetness. But here it’s a matter of taste, some like very sweet pastries, and some, on the contrary, prefer more fresh. Bon Appetit!