In our country, it is customary to drink any guest with tea - thick black with lemon or light fragrant green, or maybe grassy, ââwith hypericum and mint. Traditionally, sweets are served with a hot drink - sweets, waffles, cakes, cookies and all kinds of homemade cakes. But sometimes guests find themselves on the doorstep unexpectedly - a girlfriend may drop by for an hour, a neighbor can run over for business and stay for a chat, or a beloved mother-in-law will come for a visit. And in the house, as luck would have it, there is nothing tasty.
It is in such a situation that it is checked how confidently the hostess feels in the kitchen. After all, every woman should be able to make a cake literally from nothing and cope with the case in half an hour maximum.
Secrets of Good Housewives
No housewife owns all the secrets of cooking. However, each woman has her own recipe for a cake âwithout anythingâ - tested by repeated repetition, one that she can do with her eyes closed and measure all the products by eye.
Ladies exchange the most popular options for quick baking. There are many recipes for instant pies in culinary forums. However, they are often cunning here: they promise a quick baking recipe, and in the description you read âboil rice and chicken breast, peel the tomatoes from the skin, cook the custardâ. Here anyone understands that no 30 minutes is enough. Perhaps the cake will be prepared for half an hour, but before you send it to the oven, there will be a lot of fuss with it.
And often there is nothing at hand - no ready-made fillings, no dough, no ingredients for cream, no cheese, no tomatoes. What to do in such a situation?
Preparation
In fact, itâs quite realistic to whip up a pie âfrom nothingâ. After all, it is rare in any house that the refrigerator and cabinets with groceries are absolutely empty. They will surely contain eggs, flies, sugar, milk and fermented milk products, preserves and other baking ingredients.
A good hostess always keeps a strategic supply of products just in case guests arrive when you need to quickly bake or cook something tasty. And if we are talking about a proven recipe, then you always need to store all the ingredients necessary for its preparation. If it is not there yet, then you should stock up on products that are used in many variations of quick baking. The list is usually the following: butter, eggs, sugar, soda, vinegar (instead of the last two, you can buy a baking powder for dough), milk powder, jam, cocoa, frozen berries, minced meat, good canned tuna fish. In addition, when cooking, you can use all the products that are in the house almost every day - these are apples, cheese, sour cream, kefir and milk. You should not forget about seasonings - vanillin and cinnamon, paprika and black pepper will give a special zest to sweet and unsweetened pastries.
A whipped pie âout of nothingâ is not made from a complex custard or yeast dough, as it takes time. Complex filling and layering will also take much more than 30 minutes. So instantly and with a minimum of products you can cook only very simple pies according to the recipe - without frills and exquisite decor in the form of curls of dough and cream. But it will be delicious and fresh pastries, and it will surely appeal to guests.
From milk powder
The first recipe for the cake "out of nothing" - in milk powder. In fact, this is a dough for homemade roll, which after baking needs to be held for a minute over hot steam, and then greased with a sweet filling and curled. From above, this culinary masterpiece is glazed and sprinkled with powdered sugar. But there is not enough time for all these excesses, when the guests are already on the doorstep. Therefore, the recipe is maximally simplified.
Ingredients: 6 eggs, 6 tablespoons of dried milk, sugar and flour, salt, soda, vinegar, and, if desired, cocoa.
Cook the dough like this: beat eggs with a pinch of salt and sugar, add flour and milk powder and mix until all the lumps are dissolved. Then you need to extinguish a teaspoon of soda with vinegar and put in the dough. Mix everything again. If desired, you can add a couple of tablespoons of cocoa. So the cake will get a pronounced chocolate flavor.
Cocoa makes the dough thicker, so if necessary, add one more egg so that it spreads over the baking sheet.
A baking sheet or large mold should be greased with oil. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Pour the dough onto a baking sheet or in a baking dish, bake for 20 minutes.
The cake turns out to be lush, it rises well, and if desired, it can be cut lengthwise and grease the middle with jam. Store under a towel, as pastries dry quickly.
Pie with apples
A quick cake âout of nothingâ can be prepared if apples or seasonal ranets are littered at home. From the latter, as a rule, there is little use, and if compote or jam is not cooked from them, then they are still dead weight. Meanwhile, from the large sweet and sour ranetki, a delicious pie is obtained - a variation on the theme of charlotte.
Ingredients: 3 eggs, sugar, flour, vinegar, soda, 2-3 apples or ranetki, cinnamon, salt.
To begin with, we prepare the form - it is ideal round, 25-28 cm in diameter. You can take an ordinary cast-iron pan. It should be generously greased with butter and put chopped apples on the bottom - without a core, but with a peel. The size of the pieces is average - 2-3 cm. Ranetki need to be cut in half, remove the middle and spread with the skin down until the entire area is covered. Then apples or ranetki need to pour cinnamon - one tablespoon. If the filling is very acidic, then you can pour a little sugar in the same place - a couple of tablespoons at most.
Cook the dough like this: mix eggs with a pinch of salt, add a glass of sugar and a glass of flour, a teaspoon of slaked soda to them. Stir and pour the apples so as to cover them.
Set the oven at 180 ° C. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Take out the pie and turn it on a plate so that the apples are on top. When serving for beauty, you can sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Manna
Pie "from nothing" based on ordinary semolina is known to many. There are many options for preparing this baking - on kefir, sour cream or milk. But here we will tell you how to cook traditional mannica - on sour cream.
Ingredients: 3 eggs, salt, a glass of sugar and semolina, flour, a glass of sour cream, soda, table vinegar, vanillin.
Cook the dough like that. Beat eggs with salt and add semolina. Stir thoroughly, while the cereal will begin to swell. Pour in sugar and mix again. Add sour cream, a little vanillin on the tip of the knife, one teaspoon of slaked soda. Add flour to the dough so that it is not liquid, but spreads in shape. If you make the dough more thick, then the cake will turn out to be heavy and dense.
Lubricate the mold with butter and sprinkle with dry semolina. Pour out the dough. Put the oven preheated to 180 ° C for half an hour. Mannik turns out to be very tender, with a fried crust.
Unsweetened kefir stuffed with minced meat
You wonât be full of sweet pastries . Therefore, you can cook a quick pie with minced meat.
Ingredients for the test: 2 eggs, salt, one glass of flour and kefir, soda. Stuffing - 250 g of any stuffing, a couple of raw onions, seasoning.
Add soda to kefir, stir and wait a few minutes. Soda will be extinguished due to the natural acidity of kefir. Then add all other products and mix. Lubricate the mold with oil and place half of the batter in it. Spread the filling - minced meat and chopped onion. Salt and pepper. Top cover with the second half.
Bake at 170 ° C for about 40 minutes. If the meat was frozen, then usually the cooking time is increased by 5 minutes. Instead of mincemeat, you can use any cheese.
With fish filling
Every person in the house has canned fish. And if not, then they urgently need to be purchased. After all, with them you can cook a wonderful fish cake "out of nothing."
To prepare the dough, as in the previous recipe, - on kefir. As a filling, use canned tuna or mackerel. And reduce the baking time to 35 minutes, since the filling is almost ready.
With jam
One of the easiest pies âfrom nothingâ is made on the basis of milk and jam. It impresses with its almost primitive recipe - it includes milk, jam, egg and soda.
Prepare the dough as follows: mix one glass of milk and any jam, add a teaspoon of soda (it will be extinguished by the acid in the jam), an egg and a couple of glasses of flour. Mix everything and place in a mold pre-oiled with butter. Bake in a preheated oven for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C.
The pie turns out magnificent, friable, with berry taste and interspersed berries.
In a slow cooker
Pie "out of nothing" in a slow cooker is prepared in different variations - with berries, apples, banana, cocoa or pieces of chocolate. But one of the simplest and most successful variations of quick baking using this miracle of technology is a honey pie.
The ingredients are as follows: 1.5 cups (multi-cooked) honey, 4 eggs, a couple of tablespoons of sour cream, a teaspoon of soda, 3 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 2.5 cups of flour.
Beat eggs in a deep bowl with a whisk. Add honey and sugar and mix thoroughly. Then add soda and sour cream. Soda is extinguished due to the natural acidity of honey. Add oil and mix again. We start pouring flour - in small portions so that there are no lumps.
The bowl from the multicooker needs to be greased with butter and pour the dough into it. Set the slow cooker in the "Baking" mode. The time to cook the cake âfrom nothingâ is one hour. This is not so fast, but you do not need to run around and constantly check readiness.
Enjoy your meal!