How to make the pastry: puff, yeast, fresh. Beginners guide

Various products made of dough, have always been popular in our country - from the earliest times. First of all, of course, is the bread, then pies and cakes, dumplings and biscuits, and in recent years one of the most popular dishes from the test was the pizza.

This article presents an overview of the main types of tests and methods of preparing dough for different dishes.

In General, all types of dough can be divided into two categories: yeast-free and yeast dough. In our country more and more popular has always been the yeast.

The dough used for making bread, cakes and pies, muffins, doughnuts, cheesecakes and Kulebaki. This kind of test I'm afraid many young Housewives. How to make yeast dough?

The easiest way: in a glass of warm milk or water to dissolve 20-30 grams of yeast (they should be completely dissolved), then connect with 1 egg and 0.5 cups or 1-2 tsp. sugar (depending on what you want to test - sweet or not)? tsp. salt, pour 4 cups of flour, knead the dough. Eggs can also be mix with sugar and salt, then put in dough. At the end of kneading, add 4 tbsp butter or margarine, knead the dough until it will no longer stick, but the dough should not be. Then sprinkle the dough with flour, cover with a cloth, and leave in a warm place until it rises, then you need to press down, let it rise again, and you can start the oven.

It is very popular and flaky yeast dough for pies, rolls, cakes, braids): 23 g wet (7 g dry yeast dissolved in 1/3 Cup warm water, add 1 teaspoon sugar, combine 3 cups flour with 1 tsp. salt and 2 tsp. of sugar, add 200 g butter/margarine, and grind by hand, it should not greatly softened, pour in the water with the yeast egg with a fork to whisk, add up to a full glass of warm milk, pour the liquid into the flour, knead the dough, cover it with a cloth, put into the fridge for at least 1.5 hours (max 12), you can then bake.

From flaky unleavened dough making pizza, crispy puffs and pastries, the most simple recipe: 400 g frozen margarine grate, mix with 4 cups of flour, using your hands knead the dough, but margarine should not melt, 1 egg beaten with a glass of cold water, adding 1 tablespoon of vinegar, gradually pour in the dough, put it away for 30-40 minutes in the refrigerator.

And finally, the recipe for unleavened dough (the most useful dough), from which it is possible to prepare dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, noodles: 3 cups flour pour into a bowl, make a depression in the center, in 1 Cup of water to dissolve 1 teaspoon of salt, gradually pouring in water, knead the dough until it becomes smooth, cover with a towel for 20 minutes to leave, again lightly knead, roll into a sausage and cut into desired shape.

To cook the dough is actually not so difficult. Over time, every housewife in this matter appear tricks, but at first, you can use these recipes to understand the algorithm and to understand the process of making different types of dough. We should not forget the saying: "fear the Eyes and the hands are doing!".