When the berries are abundant, we managed to eat and to prepare for the winter, it is time to start baking pies. Berry pie for many is one of the favorite seasonal desserts. Its taste, familiar from childhood, is most associated with the hot summers, the countryside and the grandmother's cuisine. And, it seems, no refined French delicacies can be compared with this simple and familiar home-made delicacy. Today, many families make berry pie. It’s worth mixing a few basic ingredients and waiting for half an hour - and an excellent baking for tea is ready! In the article, we offer the answer to the question of how to make berry pie.
One of the easiest and fastest recipes.
Experienced housewives are happy to share the following very simple berry pie recipe. It uses inexpensive and very affordable ingredients. Many people use this recipe for a quick berry pie for seasonal seasonal baking.
Structure
As ingredients use:
- flour (1 cup.);
- milk (half a cup.);
- sugar (half a cup or more if sour berries are used);
- 1 egg
- butter (50 g);
- vanilla sugar (1 packet);
- salt (pinch);
- baking powder (1 tsp);
- berries / fruits (any).
Fast cooking
First, prepare the berry filling for the pie. Berries or fruits are washed, laid out on the bottom of the mold, oiled. If apricots or apples are added to the baked goods, they should be cut into slices. Everything is sprinkled with sugar (one tablespoon).
In a separate bowl, sifted flour, baking powder and salt are mixed. In another container, beat the egg with sugar. Add vanilla sugar and butter (soft), grind, then pour milk (it should be at room temperature). Next, combine the liquid and flour mixtures and knead a homogeneous dough (you must try so that there are no lumps left in the mass). Then the dough is poured onto berries, put the pie in the oven, which is heated to 180 ° C, and baked for half an hour. If desired, add cinnamon and chopped nuts to the dough.
Cherry Baking
One of the most delicious cakes with berries is a dessert with cherries. Use:
- wheat flour - 220 g;
- butter - 130 grams;
- sweet cherry - 500 grams;
- vinegar - one and a half teaspoons;
- soda - a third of a teaspoon;
- sugar - 170 grams;
- two eggs;
- powdered sugar - one table. a spoon;
- one pinch of salt.
Cooking
Berry cherry pie is prepared as follows:
- Cherry is washed and seeds are removed.
- Egg whites are separated from the yolks and sent to the refrigerator. Next, the yolks should be ground white with sugar (120 g).
- Then melt the butter, set it aside and allow to cool.
- Pour butter (cream) into a bowl with yolks, add salt (a pinch) and soda (it should be quenched with vinegar).
- Then add all the flour and knead the dough. It should be soft enough, but not shapeless.
- It is necessary to separate 1/5 of the kneading dough, wrap it with a film and put in the freezer for about ten minutes. After it hardens, a powder for berry pie is also made from this part.
- Then the main part of the resulting dough is laid out on a cake mold, without fail making the sides three centimeters high.
- Next, the berries are cut in half and sprinkled with flour. Then the cherries should be put on the dough in the form.
- Now you need to get the proteins from the refrigerator and beat them with a mixer with sugar (50 g).
- The resulting protein foam is evenly distributed throughout the berry layer.
- Then they take out that part of the dough, which is cooled in the refrigerator, and rubbed on a coarse grater. The resulting grated dough is sprinkled on the protein layer.
- After this, the oven should be heated to 180 ° C and send the pie there for a quarter of an hour.
- After the product is covered with a golden crust, you can safely take it out. After waiting until it cools, the treat is removed from the mold and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
You can eat a pie with berries immediately, but it is better to keep it in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning, dessert is cut and served with tea.
Open berry pie
The recipe for this baking is called one of the easiest to prepare. An open berry pie is equally successful both in the season when there are a lot of fresh berries and in winter - when frozen berries are used for baking. Outside the window there is snow and cold, and the aroma of freshly baked pies takes us right into the summer.
Berry pie "Currant" (open)
Besides the blackcurrant filling, the same pie is also baked with cranberries and blueberries. To protect the dough from excessive wetting, it is recommended to sprinkle the bottom of tartki with starch. As a more tasty and interesting option, homemade confectioners offer to use powdered ground nuts. They not only perfectly absorb berry juice, but also add a new shade of taste.
Ingredients
In order to prepare chopped dough, use:
- flour (200 grams);
- butter (100 grams);
- 50 grams of sugar;
- 1 egg
- cold milk (one or two tablespoons).
The filling is prepared from:
- black currant (400 grams);
- ground hazelnuts or almonds (75 grams);
- powdered sugar (75 grams).
To prepare a dessert, stock up on the form (diameter 22 cm). The oven is heated to 200 degrees.
How to cook a treat?
The dough for an open berry dessert is prepared as follows: in a combine, chop flour with butter and sugar, add milk and egg and knead quickly. Then it is wrapped in cling film and kept for an hour and a half in the refrigerator. Meanwhile, a berry filling is prepared: almonds are mixed with powdered sugar, the frozen currants are scalded with boiling water and dried, the fresh currants are simply washed and then dried so that the surface of the berries remains slightly moist. The berries are added to the nut mass and gently mixed.
Then the dough is rolled out or simply distributed in shape, not forgetting to make sides. It should be chopped in several places. After this, the dough is again cooled for some time in the refrigerator, and then the filling is laid on it. Bake a treat for half an hour.
Cottage cheese pie
As a basis for this curd and berry pie use the dough "Tart Tatena" (with some adjustments). The filling is created in accordance with the characteristics of fantasy and personal preferences of the author. This delicious pastry with berry notes will certainly appeal to lovers of low-fat curd baking.
Composed of
The pie is prepared from:
- flour (white) - 220 g;
- sour cream (15%) - 140 ml;
- oils (61.5%, creamy) - 40-50 grams;
- sugar - 2 tables. spoons;
- salts - a pinch;
- soda - half a teaspoon.
For the filling use:
- cottage cheese (low-fat, 1.5%) - 200 g;
- berries (fresh or frozen) - one or two glasses;
- sugar to taste;
- starch (potato) - two tables. spoons;
- sour cream 1-2 table. spoons;
- vanillin (vanilla);
- milk (depending on the density of cottage cheese).
Cooking according to the recipe: stages
First, dough is prepared: melt the butter, add sour cream, salt, sugar and mix thoroughly. Then sift the flour, add soda and knead the delicate (should slightly stick to the hands) dough. Clean it in the refrigerator for 30-50 minutes. It is not recommended to leave the dough in the refrigerator for a longer time, as it will harden, and it will be more difficult to work with it.
Filling
While the dough “rests” for the future pie, you can start creating cottage cheese and berry fillings. Cottage cheese is mixed in a blender with sugar, sour cream, starch (1 table. L.), Vanilla and milk to a consistency that resembles draining sour cream or drinking yogurt, and set aside. Then berries are crushed in a blender with sugar and starch (the remaining - 1 table. L.) You can mix by hand, but in a blender the mass will turn out more tender, without unnecessary lumps.
We form and bake a pie
Next, the form should be greased with oil (vegetable). Spread the dough so that it can form bumps. On the dough spread the curd filling, on top of it - berry. Mistresses recommend that if there is a sufficient number of berries, if you want to get a more acidic taste, the fillings can be distributed equally. But, according to some authors of the reviews, it is better to adhere to the proportion: 2 parts of cottage cheese to one part of berries. Both fillings (especially for berry) turn out to be liquidish, this should not be confusing. As a result of baking, thanks to starch, the filling will be ideal. Pour the pie with berry puree.
After the curd and berry filling is laid out, the sides are tucked. The product is sent to the oven, heated to 200 ° C, for 20-25 minutes (who has what kind of oven). The cake will be ready as soon as a golden crust appears on its surface. The filling, the housewives assure, is baked in any case, since there are no eggs in it.
Experienced confectioners do not recommend removing the cake from the mold immediately after it is removed from the oven. First he needs to cool down a bit. But even after cooling, the treats should be removed very carefully, as the dough in it is very soft and easy to smash. Dessert is served both warm and cold.
Shortbread cake
The recipe for this shortbread berry cake is very popular. Many sweet tooth call it the "quintessence of summer." The following ingredients are used to bake goodies:
For the test (sand):
- wheat flour - 380 g;
- butter - 200 grams (1 pack);
- sugar - 110 grams (a little more than half a glass);
- 2 eggs (small).
For filling:
- 800 g of berries;
- two apples (medium);
- 120-160 grams of sugar;
- two or three table. tablespoons of starch (can, corn);
- 2 table. tablespoons butter.
For lubrication: 1 egg yolk.
How to bake a delicious pie? Dough
The dough is prepared as follows: sift flour into a bowl and cut chilled butter into slices. The mass is manually rubbed into crumbs. Then add sugar and mix with a spoon, drive in eggs and knead the dough, trying to form a lump from it. Knead for a long time, achieving uniformity, experts do not recommend, because of the heat of the hands the oil contained in the dough can begin to melt actively, making the dough too sticky. Add flour to make the dough harder, also should not be, because the pie requires a crumbly dough. Therefore, it is simply collected in a bun and sent for 30 minutes. in the fridge. With excessive lumpiness and friability, you can add a spoonful of water (cold) or sour cream to it.
How to cook the filling?
While the dough is cooling, you can prepare the filling. It is better to make it from fresh berries. They are washed and dried in a colander, and then divided into 2 parts. One of them is set aside, and the second is poured into a saucepan and heated to a boil over low heat, and then boiled until the juice evaporates and cool. Then the apples are washed, peeled and peeled and grated. The cooled boiled berries are mixed with fresh. Add grated apples to them, carefully squeezing the juice out of them. Next, starch should be added to the filling (if it turned out to be quite thick, then two tablespoons (tablespoons) will be sufficient, if it is liquid, 3 tablespoons should be added) and mix.
How to form and bake a cake?
Then the dough is taken out of the refrigerator, divided into two unequal parts (approximately 2/5 and 3/5). Roll out on a table, the surface of which is generously sprinkled with flour. The cake is transferred to a form, the bottom of which should be lined with oiled parchment paper. You can immediately roll out the dough on parchment, and then transfer it with it to a baking dish. Most of the dough is rolled into a cake, the diameter of which should be slightly larger than the bottom of the form. The dough is laid out in the form and make sides three to four centimeters high. Now add sugar to the filling and mix. Then it is laid out on cake, leveled with a spoon. At the same time, you must try not to smear the edges of the cake with berry juice, otherwise it will be difficult to close them up later.
The second part of the dough is rolled into a cake, the diameter of which should be slightly smaller than the bottom. Cut out the figured holes necessary for steam to escape. Then the cake is covered with the upper cake, its edges are blinded with the edges of the lower and pinch. On the surface of the cake, you can lay out figures cut from dough. Put a piece of butter (cream) in the holes - this will protect the juice from the filling from flowing out.
Grease the cake with whipped yolk and put in the oven, heated to 180 ° C. Bake for 35-45 minutes, until the dough is dry and the top is lightly browned.
Feeding Features
The dessert is cooled in the form, then you need to hold a knife along its walls and get the pastries. The pie should be carefully moved to the dish, removing the parchment from the bottom. Cutting a pie with berries is better than cooling, because the filling from the berries cools quite slowly, and an impatient taster can get burned. Besides warm, it does not keep its shape well enough.
Raspberry Berry Puff Pastry
Berry pie made of puff pastry is also very tasty and easy to prepare. We offer for your sweet tooth a baking recipe with fresh raspberries, which is prepared from puff pastry (chopped). To prepare 8 servings of treats you will need:
For the test:
- flour - 200 grams;
- “Generous Summer” margarine - 100 grams;
- water - 150 ml;
- salt - a pinch.
For filling:
- raspberries - 300 grams;
- sour cream - 300 ml;
- powdered sugar - 100 grams;
- starch - 25 grams;
- flour - 50 grams;
- vanillin - 3 grams.
Step cooking
Chilled Generous Summer margarine is put in a bowl with flour, salt is added and chopped with a knife (can be grated manually). The baby should not be too small. Gradually, water is poured into it, the dough is brought to a consistency resembling plasticine, not sticky to the hands. Kneading the dough is not recommended! It is rolled out and laid out in a mold, placed in the refrigerator for 40 minutes. It is not necessary to lubricate the mold, but it is advisable to line the bottom with parchment. Pour sugar powder, vanilla, starch and flour into sour cream. All mix thoroughly.
Raspberries are placed in the form with the dough (chilled), a few berries are left for decoration. Sour cream is poured on top of the filling. Next, the form is set in the oven, a raspberry pie is baked at 200 ° C for about 50 minutes. After this time, the cake is taken out of the oven and cooled for 20 minutes, then it should be kept in the refrigerator for about 40 minutes to cool completely. At the end, the treat is removed from the mold and decorated with the remaining raspberries. Enjoy your meal!
The magical world of berries in your favorite animated series
The magical world of berries and berry pies found its perfect reflection in the animated series beloved by many children and adults, created by Strawberry Shortcake in 1977. By the will of the creators, in a fabulous berry town, in a colorful magical meadow live berry girlfriends with pets, bees and other very nice animals. The heroines of the cartoon “Charlotte Strawberries Berry Pie” are cheerful, kind, very well-mannered and friendly girls. Every day they find interesting activities for themselves, travel, discover something new and, among other things, arrange tastings of different dishes.
The characters in Charlotte Strawberry Berry Pie are great role models. They teach children good manners, politeness, talk about proper nutrition, demonstrate resourcefulness and mutual assistance. Young viewers learn from the cartoon a lot of useful and interesting things about the world around them.