Lard and dessert are an unusual ratio. Modern housewives usually add butter or margarine to pastries. We recommend trying traditional recipes and making biscuits on lard. It turns out tender and crumbly. We offer several recipes.
How to cook lard. Main stages
Semi-finished product is obtained by melting from fat. Traditionally, interior and subcutaneous fat are used. Crops are often used. Due to the specific aroma, interior fat is processed separately.
The smelting of lard is a simple but responsible process. The main thing is to comply with all the rules and the main stages. Otherwise, the biscuit on the lard will turn out hard and will not crumble.
First, the raw material is cleaned of layers of meat, blood, and any contaminants. Next, you need to soak the semi-finished product in salted water for twelve hours. Be sure to change the water several times.
Cut the finished product into small pieces, put on a small fire and start the melting process. Strain the melted fat with gauze, pour into jars, close tightly with a lid and store in a cool place.
Candy recipe for lard with sweets
Grate the egg with half a glass of sugar. It is necessary to beat the mass to make a lush white foam, and the volume should increase three times. Gradually add two cups of flour and a half small spoonful of baking powder. Melt lard. It will take six large tablespoons of fat. Shuffle everything together. The dough should become uniform and elastic. Put it in a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then get it, divide it into small balls. From each form a small cookie on lard. The recipe with the photo shows how to decorate them.
The easiest way is to use sweets, laying them on the surface.
Sandwich Cookies
Cut a packet of margarine into small pieces. Add a large spoonful of orange zest, a bag of vanillin and a glass of sugar to the fat. Mix everything thoroughly. Quench a small spoonful of soda with vinegar and add to the dough. Pour a small packet of liquid sour cream and sixty grams of lard. In a separate bowl, beat the salt with the egg until foamy. Mix everything and knead well. We start adding flour. A total of seven hundred and fifty grams will be required. Knead the dough with your hands until a homogeneous consistency. It should not stick to hands. Leave the dough for several hours in the refrigerator. Then divide into parts and make flat cookies from each. Bake for twenty minutes and cool.
We make protein cream. We connect two cookies with it. Apply a grid of chocolate glaze to each product. It turns out a very tasty dessert.
Cookies on lard. Recipe with photo
Beat half a glass of sugar with one egg. Add four large spoons of cocoa powder. Using a mixer, mix everything thoroughly. Cut five large spoons of soft lard into cubes. Insert it into the dough and knead thoroughly. There should be no lumps. Quench a small spoon of soda and pour into the dough. Start gradually introducing sifted flour. In total, about two glasses will be required. Knead shortbread dough , wrap in cling film and leave in the refrigerator for thirty minutes. Due to this, it will become more plastic and homogeneous. Next, divide it into small balls and form cookies from each.
Baking chocolate cookies on lard is recommended for fifteen minutes. You can serve.
Asterisk cookies
Semi-finished product can be used in any ratio. Even make biscuits on lard without eggs. The recipe is simple.
Two hundred grams of lard is mixed with half a glass of sugar. Add two glasses of flour, vanillin and a little salt. Stir the dough thoroughly and roll it thinly. Using the molds, make stars, place them on a baking sheet, chop with a fork, sprinkle with sugar and bake in the oven for about fifteen minutes. The optimum temperature is one hundred eighty degrees.
Cool each biscuit on the lard and glaze. Garnish with colorful sprinkles.
Tartlets on lard with protein cream and fresh berries
Sift two cups of flour and add a little salt. Two hundred grams of warm lard is cut into small pieces. Chop everything together with a knife to make small crumbs. Add two yolks and quickly form a dough. Form a ball out of it and leave in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Next, roll out the dough. The layer should be no more than 4 mm. Cut the dough into circles. Lubricate the molds with butter. Make cookies on lard. The photo shows how thick the dough should be. Excess need to be cut off.
Puncture the product in several places, fill with dry peas. Otherwise, the dough will swell during the baking process. It takes about fifteen minutes to cook the products. The temperature is recommended to set up to two hundred degrees. We cool the baskets, pour out the peas and carefully pull out the blanks from the molds. Fill with protein cream and decorate with fresh berries.
In conclusion, the following should be noted.
Lard is a very useful product. It contains three valuable elements. It's about choline, vitamin E and selenium. Moreover, the first element in it the most. Thanks to choline, fat and protein metabolism improves, the development of atherosclerosis is prevented, and heart function improves. It is necessary for the proper functioning of the liver. Vitamin E is essential for tissue regeneration. Therefore, it is sometimes recommended instead of butter or margarine to use lard in the preparation of baked goods.