There are a lot of different options for making shortcrust pastry for confectionery. It is due to the high content of fats and sugar that it turns out friable, which distinguishes it from other types of dough. You can make shortcrust pastry based on butter, margarine or lard. By the way, it was our great-grandmothers who prepared shortbread cookies on lard. I offer you a recipe for chocolate on lard with the addition of cocoa powder. Chocolate Shortbread Cookies on Lard it turns friable and soft at the same time. A great addition to tea or coffee.
Ingredients:
Pour sugar into a bowl. Beat the egg. Mix well.
Pour in cocoa powder and mix again. You can do this with either a mixer or a whisk. The mass should be homogeneous, without lumps of cocoa. If you want more chocolate cookies, increase the amount of cocoa.
Add the lard at room temperature, after cutting it into cubes.
Stir. Quench soda with vinegar.
Add to the rest of the ingredients. Stir again. Pour in flour.
Knead shortbread dough. Before making cookies from it, it should be put in the refrigerator for half an hour. When cooled, it will not crumble during rolling and will become more plastic.
After 30 minutes, remove the dough from the refrigerator. Roll thinly on a table sprinkled with flour. The dough layer should be approximately 03, -06, mm. Cut out different shapes using molds. Cover the baking sheet with parchment, sprinkle with flour. Arrange chocolate cookies on lard in rows. Bake at 180C for 15 minutes. Ready shortbread cookies on lard transfer to a bowl, and sprinkle generously with powdered sugar. Good appetite.
The tradition of baking desserts in the modern culinary view comes down to a creamy base for frying or baking in the oven. However, a few decades ago, it was animal fat that was used to saturate the cookies with a delicate taste and add a special satiety to the appetizers. What are the secrets of making such cookies? Consider examples of what can be baked on the basis of animal fats. Such desserts are prepared from eggs, sugar, milk, and served with jam or in powder.
Such a delicacy turns out to be very tender despite the simplicity of its preparation.
Cookies through a meat grinder are sandy and slightly crumbly. Ideal in addition to hot fruit tea and milkshakes. And most importantly, animal fat is not felt, very tender and sweet products with a minimum of ingredients are obtained.
This type of cookie is suitable for real sweet tooth. Its taste will be saturated, if not only sugar is added to the dough in the indicated proportions, but also sprinkled baked sugar with powdered baked goods.
To get the original forms of dessert, you can use not only a meat grinder. Rounded molds resembling rings are useful. These molds are ideal for making pastries for children. An interesting form of baking will interest a little fidget.
The dessert is sandy, crumbly and very tasty! Jam will give it even more taste. Enjoy your meal!
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.
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, it 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 tough 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.
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 glasses 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 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.
Cut a packet of margarine into small pieces. Add a large spoon 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. Combine 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 its help. Apply a grid of chocolate glaze to each product. It turns out very
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 thoroughly, 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.
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.
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 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 is about choline, vitamin E and selenium. And 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.
Old, proven by several generations, mothers and grandmothers give recipes to their daughters and granddaughters, who are happy to cook them for their children. Grandma’s recipe for delicious cookies can decorate any holiday and cheer up the whole family.
During the mixing process, the fat will envelop the particles of flour and the gluten contained in it, will not give the test elasticity and firmness, combining with moisture. If you follow this rule, the dough will turn out soft and crumbly
Cookies baked according to grandmother’s recipes always turn out to be tasty and fragrant. Such a treat cannot be compared to store baked goods. This soft and crumbly cookie can be served with tea or coffee at any time of the day, and all family members willingly take it with them to work or school.
Today, more and more mini-bakeries and culinary workshops are opened at the temples. People like it!
The fact is that the products of such bakeries are energetically pure. Moreover, she is sanctified. People from far away come and come to buy bakery products baked by the hands of praying novices.
The parishioners are offered bread, cakes, shangi, cheesecakes, Easter, loaves and so on. But the most interesting of all these products is printed cakes.
Previously, such products were mainly known for Tula. From generation to generation, the Tulaks passed on the secret of baking their gingerbread cookies.
Today, the recipe is not a secret. And printed biscuits are baked by many bakeries. And every gingerbread is a whole work of art!
For temples, such a production is beneficial. It's no secret that churches and monasteries bring food to mention: sugar, flour, butter, etc.
Such offerings significantly reduce the cost of baked bakery products, which accordingly affects the final price of the product.
But the main focus still remains baking printed gingerbread.
Company of Sergey Mauser began to produce wooden forms for gingerbread. Forms are made with any images or temple logo.
One form costs 1099 rubles. This is today, while the action is going on. This form will pay for itself 10 times or more.
In addition, on these forms you can make gingerbread in the classroom with the kids at Sunday school.
Well, if you want to master a serious confectionery production at a temple and a monastery, the Company can make tartlets for the price of 99,999 rubles apiece.