Why do pies go stale quickly. What to do so that the pies do not stale? The secret of kneading dough

Dough

15.06.2018

The recipe for delicious pies from the dough Fellow traveler, who do not get stale, sent to our Galina, 51 years old, Chita.

“My mother loved to make, and very often there were waffles, nuts, and brushwood on our table. She also baked from pastry. But she did everything “by eye”, and it was not easy to get a recipe for these products from her - “eye "I have a different one, besides, there was always a desire to work according to the instructions. I grew up, mastered many dough recipes, and I just could not find a good dough for pies.

I once met a recipe in a newspaper - a quick dough "Fellow traveler" from a flour mill technologist. Actually, I was interested in the phrase: “These pies do not have time to get stale,” but it turns out a lot of them - 30 pieces. I cut out a recipe for pies that do not stale from the newspaper and decided that somehow I would try to bake these wonderful pies.

On a spring evening, my husband went to another city to see his son, a cadet of a military school. All day I collected bags for him on the road with all kinds of sweets, my son was then in his second year, I really missed him. The fuss was over, my husband left, I felt sad, I remembered the recipe from the newspaper and decided to bake pies to cheer me up. At home there was a daughter with a son-in-law, then Zhenya, a school friend of her daughter, came.

It served as a filling for pies very much. When the inexpressibly pleasant smell of baked dough floated through the apartment, we all four gathered at the table. I did everything according to the instructions - exactly thirty pies came out. We ate them all at once, and then laughed at ourselves for a long time - indeed, these pies did not have time not only to get stale, they did not even manage to cool down properly.

I am very grateful to the woman who sent this wonderful recipe to the newspaper, her name is Maria Kurchatova. The dough according to her recipe is light, airy, surprisingly fragrant and tender. To make the pies from the Fellow Traveler dough successful, pay attention to the gluten of the flour, the number 28 is the best for them.

Pies from this dough can be fried and baked, I baked in the oven. Such pies stuffed with apple jam are good, you can bake them with cottage cheese,. The dough is quick, so before making it, prepare the filling for the pies.

For steam:
50 g yeast (or 1.5 teaspoons dry yeast)
1.5 cups of warm milk;
8 art. spoons of sifted flour (with a slide);
4 tbsp. spoons of sugar (without a slide).

For test:
2 eggs;
salt - 0.5 tsp
2/3 cup sunflower oil;
flour (about 500 grams)

Yeast dough "Simply incomparable"

For Easter cakes, rolls, buns and pies. This dough is prepared in an unusual way, which allows products from it not to get stale for a long time, the Easter cakes turn out to be airy, and not "heavy"! Bepa's recipe with Djazzed Cookie, for which our family bows to her. Let me tell you a secret, at first I didn’t think of posting the recipe (or rather, at first I thought, and then changed my mind, due to a catastrophic lack of time, but when my mother (a woman with 30 years of experience in baking pies and Easter cakes), after trying a braided dough, she asked without fail the recipe... I decided that I need to show you too.I'm sure that it will come in handy for many!

Vegetable oil - 1/3-1/4 stack.
butter - 50 gr.
margarine - 50 gr.
sugar - 1.5 stack.
chicken egg - 3 pcs.
milk (2 cups) - 0.5 l.
yeast (dry - 2 tsp with a slide) - 50 gr.
salt - 1/4 tsp
flour (approximately, you need to focus on the appearance of the dough) - 7 stacks.

So, take the eggs and beat until a strong foam.

Pour milk into a saucepan and heat until steam appears. Remove from heat and add a little milk to beaten eggs, mix well. After this manipulation, we send all the eggs into milk and put them back on the fire, literally for 1 minute, so that the mass warms up to 50-60 * C., stirring constantly. Further, I quote the author: “Do not overheat, otherwise the eggs will boil and the dough will rise poorly, the pastry will turn out to be heavy, not airy. It is better to underheat than overheat the eggs! stop heating. This moment scares off many, but in fact there is nothing complicated and "terrible" here - the main thing is to be careful. But this heating procedure will allow you to get pastries that do not go stale for a very long time, your pastries will be fresh for a week." Remove from heat and add margarine, butter, half vegetable oil, vanillin, sugar and salt to the still hot mass, mix until butter and sugar dissolve. If the mass is not hot (we take a pen and try), add yeast (pre-soak dry in 2 tablespoons of milk), stir and add flour so much that the dough has the consistency of pancakes. If the yeast is good and you haven't overcooked the eggs or put the yeast in too hot a mass, then these wonderful bubbles will appear on the surface. Cover and put the whole thing for 2 hours in a warm place. This is our steam.

After 2 hours, we get just such a risen and bubble dough.

Then add a little flour and knead a very soft, not tight dough. I quote Vera: “Knead the dough well, adding a little the remaining vegetable oil. When I knead the dough, I don’t add flour so that it doesn’t turn out cool. I add the next portion of butter only after the previous one has completely interfered with the dough.I pour a little oil - so it interferes more easily and the dough does not slip on the table.Gradual mixing of the oil will allow us to get a layered dough structure - if you pinch off a piece of crumb from the finished bun and pull it, then you will have a thin piece of dough in your hand.
If the dough is poorly kneaded, then the result will be just delicious rich pastries, and a well-kneaded dough will give a fibrous, layered dough structure, the holes will be oblong, stretched upwards. Knead for 10-15 minutes, the dough loves hands. The finished dough will be soft, homogeneous, slightly sticky, but not leaving marks on the hands. Flour for Easter cakes must be taken of the highest quality! The flour must be sifted 2-3 times so that the flour is enriched with oxygen. Since the flour is different everywhere, it is difficult to know the exact amount, you need to focus on the appearance of the dough. The dough should not be steep, and should not spread. It should be very soft, but not reach for your hands, then the baking turns out to be airy and not very dense. Somewhere I read that if you cut the finished dough with a knife and there are no marks left on the knife, then there is enough flour in the dough. The dough should be soft, elastic and pliable.
I will give an approximate amount of flour for the corresponding amount of milk, but I repeat once again - be guided by the appearance of the dough!

2 l. - 4600-4800 gr.
1 l. - 2200-2400 gr.
0.5 l. - 1100-1200 gr.
0.25 l. - 550-600 gr. "

We put the dough in a warm place and during the rise we knead 2-3 times

If you want to get more rich pastries, then the recipe will be like this
0.5 l. milk
1.5-2 cups of sugar
2 eggs
2 yolks
75 gr. drain. oils
75 gr. margarine
1/3 cup (~80 gr.) rast. oils
2.5-3 tsp dry yeast
vanillin, spices, raisins, candied fruits to your taste
1/4 tsp salt
about 7 cups flour (depending on the appearance of the dough)
For Easter cakes, the number of eggs must be doubled.

Well, then we do with the test who "thought" what. I "thought" to make braids with poppy seeds and nuts. Thanks to SVETAnet for the design of braids

We put the products to part until the volume doubles. Lubricate with yolk and in the oven.
Well, that's all, gentlemen! I want to thank the author of the recipe again. The dough is amazing. From half a liter of milk, I got 3 healthy braids and 15 buns with raisins.
And sorry for the photo - not quite high quality, since my one and a half year old assistant actively participated in the process - he ate raw dough and did not let me take a picture. That's it.
Enjoy your meal!

Ingredients for making pies according to the recipe for the Companion test
For steam:
50 g yeast (or 1.5 teaspoons dry yeast)
1.5 cups of warm milk;
8 art. spoons of sifted flour (with a slide);
4 tbsp. spoons of sugar (without a slide).

For test:
2 eggs;
salt - 0.5 tsp
2/3 cup sunflower oil;
flour (about 500 grams)

Test recipe Fellow traveler for delicious pies I made these pies and I will sing laudatory odes to them at the end, but for now the recipe:
The first step is to make a dough, it is not difficult and fast. You just need to mix: warm milk, yeast, sugar, flour (be sure to sift)

I mixed everything, covered it with a towel and left it for half an hour.

After half an hour, bubbles will begin to appear on the surface of the dough, which means that it is ready, you can add the rest of the flour and eggs.

She shook two eggs in a mug, poured salt and poured them into the dough, mixed.

Then I begin to slowly pour in the sifted flour, about one glass at a time.

And add vegetable oil.

Again flour and butter. You need quite a lot of oil 2/3 cup, and it took me about 500 grams of flour (plus those that were already in the dough). I don't know what kind of gluten I have, I never pay attention to it.

The finished dough should start to lag behind your hands, but don't make it tough, it should be light, soft, airy and alive. That is, the dough does not even hold the shape of a ball, but spreads.
Finally, leave a little vegetable oil, it will be convenient to pour it on your hands and collect the dough.
That's all now the dough must be covered and left alone for half an hour.

At this time I was engaged in stuffing. I decided to make pies with potatoes and fried onions. Boiled potatoes, crushed, cut the onion into long strips, fried until golden brown, put in potatoes and mixed.

So the dough has come up, I grease my hands with oil and begin to pinch off pieces from it, about the size of a child's fist. When hands are in oil, it is very convenient to work with dough, it is not very torn, lush, pliable. Directly with my hands I make a cake out of it.
That is, the flour in this recipe is no longer needed, I just poured it in vain. We work only with oil.

I put the potato filling in the center.

I fix the edge.

And I spread the pies on a baking sheet, greased with oil. Since there is no flour on them, I decided not to grease them with egg yolk, and the author of the recipe didn’t write anything about it either.
I didn’t get 30 pies, but smaller ones (not everything is on the baking sheet), about 25 pieces. But I'm the first to see how big I made from greed :)

I covered the pies with a towel and left them to rise a little, about 20 minutes.

Then I put a baking sheet with pies in a preheated oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for about 25 minutes, looking at the browning.

Well, what can I say, I ate such pies for the first time, the dough is not like any other pie dough, it’s like buns with filling. Airy, tender, very tasty! I was so anxious to know what would happen to the pies the next day, so I saved a couple. I put them in the refrigerator, took a bite in the morning, baaa, and really the same soft and tender dough as yesterday. That is, when cold, they are just as tasty, not stale!
In general, thanks to Galina for sharing such a wonderful recipe for the Fellow Traveler test for pies that do not get stale for a long time, now I will often bake such pies!

How to cook pies that do not stale? Versatile and delicious...

Today, many housewives prefer not to mess with yeast dough. They say they can't do it. They don’t even remember about the brew. But in vain! Pies prepared according to all the rules are not just food, they are a common joy, a family holiday. So why deprive your loved ones of pleasant moments?

Today, making real dough is easier than ever. Trade offers all kinds of fresh yeast, and they are the key to the success of pastry.

There are many yeast dough recipes. Simple and complex. For sweet pies and pies with "serious" fillings. But these recipes have one drawback: no matter how tasty fresh pastries are, they quickly lose their aroma and splendor, and then completely stale.

However, there is a recipe in which the quality of the pies remains at its best for several days. And it's pretty simple. Even a novice hostess will cope with it. But in order to get good pies, you need to know a few tricks and not neglect them in the cooking process.

For such non-stale pies, a special custard yeast dough is prepared. Have you heard of this?

I got this recipe from my grandmother, and for more than ten years it has been my main one. All my girlfriends cook various curlicue buns on it, everyone succeeds, and everyone just praises.

So, let's begin. I remind you that we want results - we do everything according to technology.

We will need:

- 3 eggs;
- 0.5 liters of milk + half a glass for pouring yeast;
- 200 g of margarine;
- 50 g of yeast;
- flour;
- salt, sugar, vegetable oil.

The flour must be sifted through a sieve. Remove the margarine from the refrigerator to come to room temperature. Mix yeast with a pinch of sugar and pour half a glass of warm milk. Let's leave it to rise.

Pour about half a glass of flour into an enameled pan and pour refined vegetable oil in small portions. We stir. The mass should be creamy, without lumps.

While rubbing flour with butter, milk is heated on the stove. As soon as it boils, in portions pour into a mixture of flour and butter. Poured a portion, stirred. Once again poured - stirred.

Add salt. Generously. We scoop up salt with the palm of our hand, about two phalanges of the fingers. Don't be afraid, it's not much, about a teaspoon. Then add sugar, it should be about half a cup or 2/3, no more. We stir.

Now pour the yeast into this mixture (not hot). We stir.

It's time for the margarine. It should be at room temperature, the softer the consistency, the better. Added and mixed.

Add the eggs one at a time to the mixture, mixing well.

Then pour flour in small portions, stir with a spoon. As soon as the mass has become a little thicker than sour cream, the dough is ready.

We leave it for a couple of hours in a warm place. I'll have to check in about half an hour. If the dough has risen well, knead. After a while, when it rises again, knead again. Made?

Now it's time to add more flour to make a real dough. Add little by little, no more than half a glass. Topped up - stirred. And so several times. There is no need to knead this dough with your hands. Knead with a spoon. It will be hard to turn the spoon, but this is just the measure of the right dough. As soon as the dough does not turn with a spoon and you want to start kneading with your hands, stop! No more flour. Now the dough should be soft and may even stick a little to your hands.

Place again in a warm place to rise. And after 20-30 minutes you have a great dough.

The fillings for pies from this dough can be completely different: meat, fish, sweet, vegetable, cottage cheese. You can make both large closed pies, as well as open or closed bars. Or small pies, cheesecakes, rolls.

And a couple more secrets: before planting in the oven, the pies must be greased with a whipped mixture of egg yolk and milk. And be sure to let them stand for ten minutes. Then - in a preheated oven. Pies are baked quickly - 10-15 minutes.

They eat even faster. This versatile dough is very tasty and everyone likes it. Many say that it is even tastier than the best stuffing. Maybe that's why pies from it do not get stale?

By the way, the dough is perfectly stored on the top shelf of the refrigerator for 4-5 days. There is a reason to invite friends!

The fear of baking is largely due to the need to prepare the dough. But with prescription books, making it is not difficult. The main thing is to strictly observe the proportions and keep track of time. In order not to miss the amount, you can buy a set of measuring spoons that allow you to accurately measure the right doses. Do not miss the moment when the dough has come up, the kitchen timer will help.

In addition, it is not necessary to start culinary experiments with yeast or puff pastry. No less tasty pies, pies and buns are obtained from ordinary unleavened. In addition, some stores sell ready-made dough. The only thing you need to do with it is to preheat it a little (place it in a mold, grease it with butter, cover and put it in the oven or microwave for a few minutes).

After that, the most pleasant thing remains - lay out the filling. It’s better to cook it in advance, otherwise the dough will rest, and the dish will have an unpleasant aftertaste. You can find an interesting filling option both on the Internet and in special literature. Fried vegetables with feta, salami with olives, smoked haddock with spinach, shrimp with zucchini, fried sausages with red onions, mushrooms with chicken, rhubarb with ginger - everything will be delicious.

Lubricate pastries to get the same beautiful crust as on the covers of glossy magazines, experts advise the old fashioned way - before sending it to the oven with whipped yolk, after - with butter. And just like our grandmothers, after baking, pies and pies should be carefully “wrapped” - covered with a kitchen towel or cloth napkins - the crust becomes stale from sudden cooling, and the pastry deteriorates faster.

Causes of staling home baking

The real reason for the staleness (aging) of bread has not really been figured out yet. What is known? The fact that when baking, the dough will practically lose weight just from baking the crust. No more water comes out of the piece during baking. All that happens is the denaturation of proteins - this releases water, and the gelatinization of starch - absorbing water. Thus, staleness probably occurs not due to a technological error, but due to the quality of the flour. Apparently, the gluten is not of high quality and the created skeleton does not hold the swollen starch when kneading the dough, so the dough “crumbles”.

Of course, the cause of hard baking can be an excess of flour, and poor kneading of the dough. Yeast dough must be kneaded for a long time and thoroughly. According to some recommendations, you need to knead the dough for an hour, then success is guaranteed. And if it turned out cool, let the pies stand longer on the baking sheet before being sent to the oven, so that they rise and do not use flour when cutting the dough, dip your hands in vegetable oil.

A few words about margarine - this is still not the best ingredient for a good dough. It is not strange, but it is recommended to add beef fat to the dough. No smell or taste, the dough is light and soft. And another important point, when using beef fat, no one is afraid of heartburn, which very often occurs if there is margarine or butter in the dough.

To prevent stale pies, use the following tips

In order for the pies to remain fresh for a long time, vegetable oil must be present in the dough recipe.
Store your pies in earthenware, covered with a napkin or towel, and they will not stale for a long time.
Do not bake pies on too low a fire, otherwise they will dry out in the oven.
So that the pies do not get stale for a long time after baking, let the dough come up 2-3 times, kneading and thereby saturating with air.
Remove the pies from the oven, let them cool in the room where they were baked, and put them in a plastic bag. Baking will stay soft for a long time.
If you add diluted potato starch to the dough, the pies will be soft and not stale for a long time.
After removing the pies from the oven, brush with margarine while still hot, put on a plate in a plastic bag, cover with a towel until completely cooled. Check from time to time, if the bag is too wet, change it. After such a procedure, the pies will be simply airy and will not become stale for a very long time.
To prevent the pies from stale for a long time, use table margarine as fat when kneading the dough.
Before baking, it is advisable to grease the top of the products only with yolk.
Add a few tablespoons of sour cream to the dough when kneading pies, and after baking they will be tender, soft and keep fresh for a long time.
It is recommended to add less chicken eggs to the dough. Since they tend to give the test more rigidity and hardness, which ultimately leads to its rapid hardening.
An increase in the amount of fat - products become more crumbly, tasty, do not get stale for a long time, but it is also not recommended to exceed the norm of 1/2 cup of fat for each glass of liquid (the opposite effect will occur - the dough will be dry and thin, with a dense crumb)

The recipe for delicious pies from the dough Fellow traveler, who do not get stale, sent to our Galina, 51 years old, Chita.

“My mother loved to make, and very often there were waffles, nuts, and brushwood on our table. She also baked from pastry. She just did everything “by eye”, and it was not easy to take a recipe for these products from her - “eye "I have a different one, besides, there was always a desire to work according to the instructions. I grew up, mastered many dough recipes, and I just could not find a good dough for pies.

I am very grateful to the woman who sent this wonderful recipe to the newspaper, her name is Maria Kurchatova. The dough according to her recipe is light, airy, surprisingly fragrant and tender. To make the pies from the Fellow Traveler dough successful, pay special attention to the gluten of the flour, the number 28 is the best for them.

Ingredients for making pies according to the recipe for the Companion test

For steam:
50 g yeast (or 1.5 teaspoons dry yeast)
1.5 cups of warm milk;
8 art. spoons of sifted flour (with a slide);
4 tbsp. spoons of sugar (without a slide).

For test:
2 eggs;
salt - 0.5 tsp
2/3 cup sunflower oil;
flour (about 500 grams)

How to cook pies that do not stale? Versatile and delicious...

Today, making real dough is easier than ever. Trade offers all kinds of fresh yeast, and they are the key to the success of pastry.

For such non-stale pies, a special custard yeast dough is prepared. Have you heard of this?

I got this recipe from my grandmother, and for more than ten years it has been my main one. All my girlfriends cook various curlicue buns on it, everyone succeeds, and everyone just praises.

So, let's begin. I remind you that we want results - we do everything according to technology.

We will need:

- 3 eggs;
- 0.5 liters of milk + half a glass for pouring yeast;
- 200 g of margarine;
- 50 g of yeast;
- flour;
- salt, sugar, vegetable oil.

The flour must be sifted through a sieve. Remove the margarine from the refrigerator to bring it to room temperature. Mix yeast with a pinch of sugar and pour half a glass of warm milk. Let's leave it to rise.

Pour about half a glass of flour into an enameled pan and pour refined vegetable oil in small portions. We stir. The mass should be creamy, without lumps.

While rubbing flour with butter, milk is heated on the stove. As soon as it boils, in portions pour into a mixture of flour and butter. Poured a portion, stirred. Once again poured - stirred.

Now pour the yeast into this mixture (not hot). We stir.

It's time for the margarine. It should be at room temperature, the softer the consistency, the better. Added and mixed.

Add the eggs one at a time to the mixture, mixing well.

Then pour flour in small portions, stir with a spoon. As soon as the mass has become a little thicker than sour cream, the dough is ready.

We leave it for a couple of hours in a warm place. I'll have to check in about half an hour. If the dough has risen well, knead. After a while, when it rises again, knead again. Made?

Now it's time to add more flour to make a real dough. Add little by little, no more than half a glass. Topped up - stirred. And so several times. There is no need to knead this dough with your hands. Knead with a spoon. It will be hard to turn the spoon, but this is just a measure of the correct test. As soon as the dough does not turn with a spoon and you want to start kneading with your hands, stop! No more flour. Now the dough should be soft and may even stick a little to your hands.

Place again in a warm place to rise. And after 20-30 minutes you have a great dough.

The fillings for pies from this dough can be completely different: meat, fish, sweet, vegetable, cottage cheese. You can make both large closed pies, and open or closed bars. Or small pies, cheesecakes, rolls.

They eat even faster. This versatile dough is very tasty and everyone likes it. Many say that it is even tastier than the best stuffing. Maybe that's why pies from it do not get stale?

By the way, the dough is perfectly stored on the top shelf of the refrigerator for 4-5 days. There is a reason to invite friends!

Did not calculate the number of ordered delicacies, and food delivery brought you more than you could eat? Or, perhaps, cakes to order for the birthday have already turned out to be superfluous? Or perhaps you've baked pies yourself and now don't know how to keep them fresh?

We will try to tell you how to make pies not stale for a long time and at the same time retain their freshness and rich taste.

The timing of baking staleness directly depends on the recipe of the dough itself. You might notice for yourself that baked goods to buy which you can find in any store will stay soft much longer than homemade pies. It's all about the right recipe and some tricks, which, by the way, you can also resort to.

When preparing the dough, add a little vegetable oil to it and then your pastries will stay soft longer. Potato starch is also added to the dough for the same purposes. Also, another trick will allow you to keep the airiness of the pies - let the dough come up several times, as soon as it suits, remember it and let it brew again. So the dough will be saturated with air and will not quickly become stale after baking.

When kneading pies, also add a little sour cream to it, it will soften the pastries. But the eggs can be put smaller: the protein in the egg gives the baking rigidity. But the baking surface can be smeared with an egg, so it will acquire a beautiful color.

When baking, do not add fire, from this baking immediately becomes dry. Also, after your pies are cooked, grease them with a little margarine and cover with a plastic bag, and put a towel on top until they cool completely. And it is worth making sure that the bag does not become too wet, then it is better to replace it with a dry one.

If it's hard for you baking, buy which is much simpler, we advise you to go for delicious fresh and soft pies to the bakery chain " Pekarushka, official site which will open before you a large selection of pastries for every taste.

If you want to save ready-made or purchased pastries, then, no matter how trite it may sound, it is best to keep its softness in a plastic bag. In it, pastries will remain soft for a long time. There is another way to keep the cake fresh - store it in an earthenware dish, covered with a napkin or towel. This method is much more efficient than the package. Firstly, earthenware retains heat perfectly and therefore it will not only prevent your pastries from stale, but also keep them fresh and warm. And pies or puffs, or pies covered with a napkin or towel, will not get damp, as, for example, it can be with a package. The towel passes a little air and perfectly absorbs moisture. Warm pastries will not have time to cool down and at the same time remain just as tasty.

But, as practice shows , delivery of pies Omsk from "Pekarushka" has not yet known cases when cakes to order, bought in our bakeries, would remain on the tables. No matter how many pies are ordered, by the end of your holiday, they will all be eaten.

Store your pies in earthenware, covered with a napkin or towel, and they will not stale for a long time.