Most people associate home baking with family, comfort and care. Pies and pies are usually prepared by caring grandmothers to their grandchildren, mothers - to children, wives - to husbands. They are eaten by the whole family, gathered at a large table, washed down with fragrant tea, taken with them on a long journey to satisfy their hunger away from home and to feel the care of loved ones.
If you consider this dish from a culinary point of view, then any pie is a kind of masterpiece, for the successful preparation of which you need a good recipe, quality products and a good mood. In this case, the result will certainly live up to expectations.
Before you start baking pies, you should prepare the dough. It can be fresh or yeast, sand or puff - it all depends on the recipe and the desired result. The most popular yeast
dough for pies in the oven, because they are rich, soft and tasty. But it is in this performance that the food will come out as high-calorie as possible.
The recipe for pies in the oven based on yeast dough can be brought to life by buying a semi-finished dough, but it will never surpass homemade one in terms of taste, aroma, or other properties. So good housewives cook it themselves. To do this, take 50 grams of yeast, 2 cups of milk, a half pack of margarine, a little salt and sugar (if the filling is sweet, you can add almost a full glass) and a kilogram of flour.
Any recipe for pies in the oven from a yeast dough involves cooking dough. For her, the yeast is sprinkled with sugar and knead, leaving until the mass becomes liquid. Then milk is carefully poured into it, 2 cups of flour are added and kneading, leaving it in a warm place until the mass increases by 2-3 times (it usually takes about half an hour).
While it rises, you can prepare other products - melt margarine, beat eggs (in case of sweet dough - with sugar). The remaining products are added to the finished dough. You need to knead and beat the dough properly, lifting it above the table or the container, and then throwing it with a little effort (in this way it will come out softer and tastier), and then put it back in a warm place so that it fits. This time we leave it for 1.5-2 hours.
Note to the hostesses: cooking in the oven is much more useful than in a pan, because in this case the food is not fried, but baked. Therefore, it turns out less harmful and oily.
While the dough rises, you should do the filling. Of unsweetened cakes, the most common option is with meat, and of sweet cakes with apple.
The recipe for pies in the oven allows you to simultaneously make them with several toppings, only they should be prepared either in different shapes or baked alternately so as not to mix them up later. For stuffing you will need a pound of meat (pork or beef), a glass of broth, 2-3 onions, spices, herbs. The meat is scrolled through a meat grinder with onions, chopped herbs, salt and spices are added, the broth is poured for juiciness (if the meat is fat, the broth can not be added).
For a sweet filling, apples, sugar, butter (2-3 tablespoons) and cinnamon will be required. Melt the butter in a frying pan, pouring a few tablespoons of sugar, and warm until caramel is formed. At this time, apples are washed, peeled, cut into slices, and then they are laid in caramel and stewed for several minutes. Finished stuffing sprinkled with cinnamon.
When the dough is suitable, it is divided into small pieces, form flat cakes with your hands, forcemeat is placed in the middle and the edges are plucked. Top pies smeared with whipped yolk. They are baked first in the oven, heated to average, for 15 minutes, and then the temperature is raised, leaving the baking sheet inside until golden brown on the pies.
This recipe for pies in the oven is simple enough for even a beginner to cope with it. They turn out to be aromatic and delicious, and for a long time they are not stale.