In the modern world, food is not only a vital necessity, it has become a cult, and cooking is a whole science. Tasty and satisfying meal loved at all times. A richly laid table in the culture of any nation was considered a sign of prosperity.
If some people really like to eat food, then others do not see their life without the cooking process itself. Being in their kitchen, they seem to fall into another world, where they become magicians and wizards. As a result of their magical work, gourmet dishes appear that amaze not only with their taste, but also with their presentation.
What television is preparing for us ...
Anyone can get a culinary education, be it an ordinary technical school or a higher school of culinary art in Paris. But what about those for whom cooking is, above all, a hobby? To help such lovers come television.
On each channel you can see a program or a TV show dedicated to cooking.
Even on local television, one can see a program where the chef of a local restaurant reveals the secrets of preparing an original dish.
We must pay tribute to the organizers of television shows for their diversity. Everyone can choose a program to their liking. Someone wants to get acquainted with the exotic cuisine of the East, but for someone it will be useful to learn the basic secrets of cooking. And what are the culinary shows! They attract even those who are indifferent to the cooking process, especially since there it is not always possible to understand what and how to do. But the scale of the project, its presenters (mostly great chefs) and the intrigues of the participants do not let the viewer go until the last minute.
Lovely gears
And there are, on the contrary, quiet, home programs. One of these is “Eat at Home,” which
leads Julia Vysotskaya. One of the few programs, which is aimed primarily at the viewer, and not at the ratings. The home atmosphere, the kind hostess give the impression that you are visiting your girlfriend, and together you master a new dish.
Even if Julia cooks a complicated dish with extravagant products, she gets a very home-made dish, looking at which, you see, it was made with love.
In one of these programs, a plum pie from Vysotskaya was presented. It looked very tasty and, as always, at home. For those who have not seen this program and love delicious homemade cakes, we offer a step-by-step recipe.
The recipe for an English pie from Julia Vysotskaya
In order to make a pie with plums from Vysotskaya, we need such products:
- Plums - 300 g (you can use not only fresh, but also frozen).
- Flour - 200 g.
- Chicken eggs - 4 pcs. (necessarily fresh).
- Butter - 180-200 g.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp. (if you do not like too sweet, you can reduce the volume).
- Baking powder and vanilla sugar - 1 tsp. everyone.
- Salt - 1 pinch.
- Vegetable oil.
- Sugar powder - about two tablespoons.
- Ice cream "Ice cream" - 400 gr.
Before you cook a simple pie with plums, do not rush to go immediately to turn on the oven. First you need to get the oil out of the refrigerator and leave it at room temperature for forty to sixty minutes. Plums, if you will use frozen, you also need to first defrost.
When the butter is soft, mix it with sugar. For greater convenience, take dishes with high sides. You can mix with a mixer or whisk, it does not matter of principle, the main thing is that it is convenient.
Break eggs into a separate bowl and rub them with a fork, and then send them to the oil mixture. Mix everything well again.
Mix 4 tablespoons of flour with baking powder, vanilla and salt and send this mixture to the resulting mass. Now you can pour out the remaining flour, until then, until you get the dough, like thick sour cream.
Now you can turn on the oven at 180 ° C, let it start to warm up. In the meantime, let's take care of the fruits. Plums must be washed, remove the seeds and cut into four slices.
Lubricate the baking dish with oil and pour the dough there. Slightly moving the form, let the dough evenly distribute and begin to spread plums. Put them down with the skin, slightly sunk into the dough.
Preparing such a simple cake with plums on average 40 minutes, but it all depends on what kind of oven you have. After it cools down a little, sprinkle it with icing sugar, and when serving, cut into pieces and decorate with balls of ice cream.
That's it, the delicious plum pie is ready!
Experienced Cooking Tips
- If you need soft butter or margarine for baking, do not melt it in a water bath or in the microwave. Thus, the dough turns out to be very bold, so just leave it on the table until it becomes soft.
- The flour must be sieved before use, then the dough will be saturated with oxygen and will be much more magnificent.
Using these simple tips, you get a pie with a plum from Vysotskaya, no worse than the author.
Let's make some additions to the recipe
Pie with plums from Vysotskaya can be varied, if you add nuts, which ones - decide for yourself, a matter of taste. They need to be finely chopped and added to the dough along with flour.
Do not be discouraged if visually you have a different pie with plums than you would like. Photo and original do not always match. Each housewife puts their energy, their soul into the dish, so the result may differ, most importantly, for home-made ones to like.