Mmm ... How delicious cakes are! With meat, jam, cabbage, mushrooms, potatoes, and much more. Is there anyone who can resist such a yummy? True, I had to try what you can hardly call such a kind word as “pies”. Since I love to cook myself, I immediately realized what was happening: the taste of the pie depends not only on the filling, but also on how the dough was made. After all, the dough is the basic basis, and if it is bitter and salty or, conversely, excessively sweet, then the pies will be tasteless and nasty.
I propose to talk about how to make dough for pies, and only because many people just do it wrong. Itself once went through this, but now I always have at hand a couple of proven and reliable recipes.
I remember, my grandmother also said that the preparation of pastry dough should begin with the fact that to cheer yourself up. She believed that the dough will take part of the energy and it will turn out to be especially tasty. Like it or not, I don’t know, but for some reason I still start cooking pies only when I really want it. Maybe that's why they always turn out so tasty?
Recipe for pastry N1
Ingredients: based on 1 kg of flour - 30 g of yeast, 1/3 cup of sugar, 80 g of margarine, 2 tbsp of vegetable oil, 160 ml of milk, 2 eggs.
Preparation: take a couple of tablespoons of sugar, grind it with yeast and add 1-2 cups of flour to all this. Mix everything well, cover with a towel and wait until the dough comes up. After about an hour, we begin to knead the dough. Melt the margarine with dough, add warm milk, vegetable oil and eggs, mashed with the remaining sugar. Gradually we begin to introduce flour. Knead the dough until it is well behind hands. We put the dough in a warm place so that it fits. When it suits, knock it down, divide it into balls and proceed to filling with the filling.
Little secret: the flour that you are going to use for the dough should first be sieved through a sieve so that it is thus enriched with oxygen. Due to this, your dough will become airy.
Pastry Dough Recipe N2: Yeast Free
Ingredients: 250 g of margarine, 1 cup of yogurt, 4-5 cups of flour, 2 eggs, 1 tsp of salt, 0.5 tsp of soda.
Preparation: melt margarine, mix with beaten eggs, add yogurt, salt, soda and gradually introduce flour. Knead the cool dough.
The recipe for the pastry dough described above will come in handy if you have absolutely no time to wait until the yeast dough is suitable .
Dough pies recipe N3: puff
Ingredients: 0.5 kg of flour, 250 g of margarine, 1 egg, a pinch of citric acid, 150 ml of water, 2 tsp of salt, 50 g of vodka or rum.
Preparation: Sift the flour, set aside separately 2-3 tbsp. Dissolve citric acid and salt in water, add vodka, beaten egg and most of the flour. Knead the dough until smooth for 5-10 minutes. We roll it into a ball, cover with a napkin and leave it alone for half an hour so that gluten swells. At this time, chop the margarine in slices, pour 2 tablespoons of flour into it, mix well and give the mass a square shape, about 2 cm thick. We put it in the refrigerator for cooling. Now we will layered the dough. To do this, cut it crosswise, sprinkle with flour and roll it so that the middle is thicker than the edges. We put the prepared margarine in the middle and wrap the dough in the form of an envelope and pinch the edges. Then roll the dough again, bend the edges to the center, and then fold the dough in half again. Cover with a napkin and refrigerate for 20 minutes. Then roll the dough twice more into a rectangle, bend the edges to the center and fold in half. In between, put the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. The puff pastry for our pies is ready.