Indeed, modern owners have a difficult time due to a busy working day. There is absolutely not enough time to receive guests, but it is so important to maintain good relations with people you love. And what could be more pleasant than a pie with jam just served to the table, with crispy and mouth-watering dough, sweet berry jam and absolutely fantastic taste? But, of course, we will not tell anyone that he was baked in some 40-50 minutes!
Don't believe
Remembering how guests usually respond when they ask about food, you involuntarily give up, and the desire to cook somewhere disappears. And there is nothing to worry about! In this case, you should be guided by your own intuition, because often there is a desire to chew something sweet and tasty with hot tea. So, today's jam pie is just perfect for this role.
And you know how to determine whether his mission was a success or not? If at the end of fun gatherings with your friends there will not be a single piece of cake left on the table, then you did everything right. And if not, it means that not enough time has passed behind a friendly conversation.
Why with jam?
It is amazing that out of the whole variety of desserts and pastries, we chose this recipe. Although there is nothing strange, because a pie with jam is quick and easy to prepare, and this is very important for modern housewives.
So why is the dessert simple? Because all its components can be prepared in advance, and only then used at the right time. For example, you prepared a lot of different jams in the summer and removed them before the winter. And on the weekend, just made a few dough pieces and at the right time combined these components in one dish, putting them together in the oven. Thus, the jam pie will be ready in a matter of minutes.
Difficult choice
But which jam to choose? This question can be answered only if you carefully understand everything. If you want to add less sugar, then choose more acidic varieties, such as plum or currant. It is also worth considering that the cake is moderately sweet, you can use homemade jams in which you independently adjust the amount of sweetener.
Although all these considerations may just be in vain, if you have long since stagnated with one or two open jars of jam. Then you need to, without hesitation, take all the available ingredients and start making a delicious pie.
Ingredients for the first pie
First, we will prepare a yeast pie with jam, the recipe of which, like the composition, will be slightly, but differ from the second option. But for the most part, both basic and familiar components are used there and there:
- Milk - 250 ml.
- Flour - 600 g.
- Salt - 1 tsp.
- Dry yeast - 2 tsp.
- Vegetable oil - 70 ml.
- Sugar - 100 g.
- Yolk - 1 pc.
- Jam.
Recipe One: Yeast Jam Tart
Sequencing:
- To begin with, take out all the ingredients from the refrigerator so that they reach room temperature before we start cooking from them.
- In a separate deep bowl, slightly heat the milk, then remove it from the stove and add sugar and yeast to the container. Gently mix the liquid until the granules dissolve.
- In another container we combine all the dry ingredients, passing them through a sieve in advance. We also add milk with yeast, as well as butter.
- Knead the dough with a spoon first, and then work with your hands. You need to work hard on it, but do not overdo it. As a result, the dough should be smooth and elastic.
- We cover our dough with a towel or cling film to avoid weathering, and remove in a dark place for 1-1.5 hours.
- We roll out the finished dough using a rolling pin and put it in a greased mold, dividing it into several parts in advance (you can also make a French shirt by covering the sides with a thin layer of flour). You can immediately use all the dough to make the grill on top, or you can freeze it until the next time.
- We spread the layer of berry jam, create strips of dough as desired, grease the edges of the dough with whipped yolk and remove the dish in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees for 30-45 minutes.
The finished cake, the jam on top of which thoroughly soaks the air dough, turns out to be just magical. It is good both in warm and chilled form.
On taste and color
With this motto, we proceed to the production of the second dessert, which was a cake made from shortcrust pastry with jam. With a combination of similar ingredients, the result is still another dish that has its own advantages, for which it is appreciated.
So, for example, the dough is obtained not airy and magnificent, but friable and elastic. And since the jam is distributed according to another test, the final taste is completely different. But we will not take time and proceed to the most interesting.
Ingredients for the second pie
They practically do not differ from the previous ones, except for the fact that milk is replaced with butter. Otherwise, everything is unchanged, so you can bake any of the pies, having available similar components:
- Flour - 260 g.
- Baking powder - 1 tsp.
- Egg - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 90 g.
- Butter - 150 g;
- Salt is a pinch.
- Jam, jam or jam (you can also use fresh fruits and berries, which are pre-sprinkled with sugar and a little, about 30-40 minutes, stewed on a fire, due to which sugar turns into caramel, which envelops all components, making them a perfect substitute for any jam or jam).
Recipe two: shortcrust pastry pie with jam
His recipe is as follows:
- Melt the butter in the microwave or on the stove until absolutely liquid, then remove from the stove and add one egg, salt, sugar and baking powder to the container.
- Mix the whole mixture very carefully to prevent the egg from boiling, which is why the dough can get an unpleasant egg aftertaste.
- Pour the sifted flour into a container with oil and, gently mixing so that the flour does not fly out, bring all the ingredients to a uniform and smooth state of shortcrust pastry.
- Wrap the finished dough with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes to complete all the unification processes in the dough itself.
- In order to use only chilled dough in preparation, we will prepare a baking dish in advance, grease it with butter and sprinkle it with flour.
- We roll out the dough and spread it with a flat disk on the bottom of the mold, forming rather high sides so that they hold the jam.
- Put the jam in the next layer, and then the lattice from the dough as desired. Cover all exposed parts of the dough with whipped yolk.
- The crumb pie with jam goes to the oven, heated to 200 degrees for 35-50 minutes until a golden and elastic crust appears on the dough. It is best to cool the finished dish, after which you can safely serve to the table with tea or coffee.
Interesting replacement
So we learned how to make a jam pie, the step-by-step recipe for which turned out to be so simple that, most likely, even novice cooks will cope with it. But do not stop at this stage, since only experiments and a creative approach to cooking can provide you with an improvement in your culinary skills. So, if the jam pie is quick and easy for you, then you can try to replace the jam with something more complicated.
So, for example, berry jam can be removed, and add some home-made mousse or apples with cinnamon. The cake can also be made salty, if instead of all the sugary sweet, you can use stewed cabbage with an egg, young potatoes with herbs or something like that.
Of course, then this cake will not be so wonderful for a tea ceremony, but as a good and dense snack, it will definitely suit tea. How many ideas we have listed for you, although we haven’t even dug deeper, staying somewhere at the very top of the culinary school. That is what cooking is good in all its senses and meanings. There is so much to try here, so there will be enough ideas for many years to come in order to surprise guests with new, but at the same time simple and tasty dishes!