In Soviet times, one of the most delicious and desired delicacies was a rum woman with cognac. This rich and very sweet bun had a constant snow-white sugar cap. It was also heavily soaked in syrup. Today, unfortunately, such a bun is very rarely found on sale. But every housewife can try to cook it at home, because in fact this process is not as complicated as it might seem at first glance. So we offer to try.
List of ingredients
If you take the products in full, as suggested in the recipe, you should get 16 rum women, who are also called "muffins in tins", with a weight (before impregnation) of about 50 g.
So, for dough we take:
- premium wheat flour - 212 g;
- water - 147 g;
- dry instant yeast - 5 g.
For the test you will need:
- cooked dough;
- premium wheat flour - 200 g;
- butter or 82% margarine - 103 g;
- sugar - 105 g;
- chicken eggs - 82 g (one very large or two very small);
- salt - ¼ tsp;
- vanilla sugar - 1 sachet (or vanilla essence - a few drops);
- raisins - 52 g.
We will soak in syrup from:
- water - 240 g;
- sugar - 240 g;
- fragrances - dessert wine, cognac, rum essence (optional).
Fudge will consist of:
- sugar - 500 g;
- water - 160-170 g;
- lemon juice - about 1 tsp
Kneading the dough
Cooking rum women begins with dough. Mix flour with yeast. Then gradually add warm water and thus knead soft dough. The dough should be rounded, covered and left warm for fermentation for about 3-4 hours. There are two ways to ferment a dough. The first is time orientation. And the second is waiting for the test to settle.
What is meant? The fermentation process begins with the fact that the sponge increases in volume, grows. But then its surface will begin to be covered with bursting bubbles, which will indicate a reverse movement. That is, in the first place, the middle will sag. And this will be a sign of readiness, or, as they say, ripeness of dough.
Kneading dough
When the rum woman is prepared according to GOST, the dough must be kneaded as follows: add salt, vanilla sugar (essence) mixed with the egg, sugar and flour mixed with the egg and knead so that the dough is soft. It must be kneaded for 2-3 minutes, after which mix the butter (softened). As a result, you get a very soft and quite mobile dough.
Next, put it on a dry (but without flour) table and knead well until it becomes a homogeneous state. Such a dough, whose consistency is soft, is more convenient to knead using French technology, which is as follows: we pick up the dough, stretch it as much as possible, then fold and turn it over, pick it up again, pull it out, fold it and turn it over. This procedure must be repeated for 5-7 minutes. When the dough is ready, add raisins to it.
Lightly grease the bowl with vegetable oil, put the dough in it, give it a ball shape and put in the refrigerator for an hour. After an hour we take out the dough, put it on the table, stir for 1-2 minutes, round it in the same way, cover and put in the refrigerator for an hour and a half again. The dough is ready.
Buns
On the table, lightly sprinkled with flour, put the finished dough. We divide it according to the volume of molds. If there is a kitchen scale, then you can divide it by the recommended weight, about 50 g (as a rule, the mold for the rum woman is a standard portioned form for the cake). It should turn out about 16 equal parts.
Each piece of dough must be rounded. We grease the molds with butter or vegetable oil. But if butter is nevertheless used, then it is recommended to sprinkle it on top with flour. This is due to the fact that butter contains a lot of liquid.
Lay the dough upside down. Level and compact. As a result, the dough should occupy no more than 1/3 of the form. After that, cover the muffins in the molds and leave them in a warm place for about an hour and a half, so that the dough comes up twice. Before baking, very carefully lubricate the rum women with a beaten egg so that the dough does not settle.
A rum woman with brandy is baked in the oven at 210 degrees to golden brown. According to the standards, the baking time should be approximately 45 minutes. But you must definitely monitor the brownness of the dough, as time can be significantly reduced due to the technical characteristics of your oven.
After baking, you need to allow the muffins to cool slightly in molds. After that, we take them out of the forms, set down the narrow side until they cool completely (about 2-4 hours). Next, turn the rum women upside down with the narrow side and leave to dry for 4-8 hours.
Syrup preparation
As we have already said, a rum woman with brandy is necessarily soaked in syrup. And he is preparing very easily. First, pour sugar into the saucepan, add water. It is necessary that the sugar is completely dissolved. Then bring the mixture to a boil and cook for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely. When the syrup has cooled, add a flavor, such as cognac. For better impregnation, you can warm the syrup to a pleasant temperature before soaking.
Cooking fudge
Rum woman with cognac attracts not only for its wonderful taste, but also for its spectacular look, which is achieved thanks to a beautiful fondant.
To prepare it, pour sugar into a separate saucepan, add the right amount of water. Gently heating and stirring intensively, we achieve complete dissolution of sugar (so that not a single crystal remains). An important point is the complete dissolution of sugar before boiling, because when the sugar solution boils, it can no longer interfere. The first 2-3 minutes of boiling over a fast fire, the pan should be covered. Next, remove the lid and cook the syrup with intense boiling (temperature about 108 degrees). Add lemon juice and cook until the temperature reaches 115-117 degrees. Or you can make a test on a soft ball. When the syrup is ready, remove it from the heat and quickly cool to a temperature of about 60 degrees. Beat the chilled syrup with a mixer until the consistency of white sugar fudge. It is very important not to overdo it! Cover the fondant to avoid drying out, and leave to stand until the morning.
The final stage: impregnation and watering with lipstick
Dried muffins are pricked with a toothpick on the thin side, i.e. turning them upside down. Dip them narrow part down in warm syrup for 10 seconds. We impregnated the rum women with the narrow part up and let stand for about 7 minutes to evenly distribute the syrup.
In the meantime, gently warm the fudge in a water bath to a liquid state. If necessary, it can be diluted with warm water (a small amount). Glaze soaked cupcakes with sugar fudge
So our rum woman is ready . The recipe (photo of our beauty below) is simple, but time-consuming, requires compliance with all the necessary rules of cooking technology.
Therefore, be patient and wish good luck!