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lunedì 29 aprile 2013

Croissants

Croissants
Ingredients:
  • 10.58 OZ (300 grams) of flour
  • 6.35 OZ (180 grams) of water
  • 0.88 OZ (25 grams) of butter
  • a pinch of salt
  • 2.12 OZ (60 grams) of sugar
  • 0.53 OZ (15 grams) fresh yeast or dried slow rising
  • 8.82 OZ (250 grams) of butter for the stripping
  • 1 egg for brushing final
  • 6.35 OZ (180 grams) jam

Time: -
Oven:
428°F-356°F 
Cooking time: 5+10 minutes 
Difficulty: difficult
Spread the butter with a rolling pin forming a layer as wide as the sheet of dough
Fig.2
take the dough and roll it out to a thin sheet
Fig.1

Dough:
Mix flour, water, sugar and yeast in the planetary with the hook knead for 5 minutes, add salt and butter and continue to knead for 10 minutes or until the dough is elastic and not sticky. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 4 hours, or even overnight.

After this time take the dough and roll it out to a thin sheet (fig.1), take the stick of butter cold from the fridge, sprinkle with flour and place it between two sheets of plastic wrap.

Spread with a rolling pin forming a layer as wide as the sheet of dough, along 2/3 of the same and thin (fig.2). Place the rectangle of butter thus obtained in the fridge covered with foil. 

1
 Take the dough from the fridge and put on the rectangle of butter to cover it ...
 
Take the dough from the fridge and put on the rectangle of butter to cover it for 2/3, fold the dough over the butter and overlap free dough on this, the portion of dough covered in butter.
At this point turn the dough 90 degrees, making sure that the open end is on your right.
Spread this mixture "stuffed" with butter and cut a big rectangle with the short side facing you. Bent toward the center first the bottom and then the top, turn a further 90 °, cover with foil and put it in the fridge for 40 minutes.


2

 
Take the dough from the fridge, roll out a rectangle with the short side in front of you, about 1 cm thick and repeat the folds: bent toward the center of the bottom and then the top, turn a further 90 ° (open side always at your right), cover with foil and put it in the fridge for 40 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for 40 minutes.


3

 
Take the dough from the fridge, roll out a rectangle with the short side in front of you, about 1 cm thick and repeat the folds: bent toward the center of the bottom and then the top, turn a further 90 ° (open side always at your right), cover with foil and put it in the fridge for 40 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for 40 minutes.

At this point, take the dough and roll it out into a long and narrow rectangle, about 1 cm high.
With a knife cut into triangles and make a cut of 1 cm and 1/2 around the center of each base.
Place in the center of each triangle a spoonful of jam and sprinkle lightly.
Roll up the croissants for keeping the two edges of the base and make sure that the tip remains below, incurvateli slightly.

Line a baking tray with the appropriate paper and position the brioches thus formed, taking care to leave them at a certain distance, because they will rise again for 3 hours.
Once you have spent the last 1 leavening brush them with beaten egg.

Bake in oven at 220 ° C for 5 minutes and then lower the oven to 180 ° C and continue cooking for 10 minutes.

And now yum yum!

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mercoledì 7 novembre 2012

Dried fruit swivels

Dried fruit swivels
Ingredients:
dough:

  • 5,30 oz of manitoba flour
  • 5,30 oz of flour 00
  • 0,30 oz of butter at room temperature
  • ½ packet of active dry yeast or ½ cube of the fresh
  • 2,80 oz of sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 cup of milk
  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
  • 1 pinch of salt
stuffing:
  • 5 oz apricot jam
  • 5,30 oz raisins or dried fruit to taste (albiocche, cranberries, ...)

  •  2 tablespoons of sugar  
  • 1 tablespoon hot water
15 min for the dough
8/12 hours + 1 hour rising
cooking time: 20 minutes
oven temperature: 356 °F (180 °C)
 
Put a cup of milk in a bow or in a mixer. Then add egg yolk, butter, salt, sugar and give a first kneaded. Add the two types of flour, vanilla and lastly the baking powder, or the fresh one crumbled. Knead vigorously, if using a mixer. The dough should be soft but not sticky, a bit like pizza dough. If necessary, add flour or milk.
Cut strips of 1,5 inch high and fill in each one with apricot jam and  dried fruit to taste
Fig.1
At this point formed a ball and let rest in the bowl next to a cup filled halfway with water. Cover with foil and let in the oven turned off for 8/12 hours. I usually let the mixture stand overnight.

Your dough is ready! Must be at least doubled, but also depends on the temperature!
Give it a punch to activate the yeast and then lay it on a floor and work them with a rolling pin to form a sheet of about ½ cm.

Cut strips of 1,5 inch high and fill in each one with apricot jam and  dried fruit to taste (fig.1), then close it so as to obtain a long cord and roll like a pinwheel, brush the final stretch with water (but not too much) and seal it. Repeat with all the strips of dough.

Let stand for 1 hour.
Bake in center of oven at 356 °F for about 20 minutes near a small saucepan with a water.
Let cool and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of sugar dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water.
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venerdì 10 agosto 2012

One tart for all!

1 tart for all with apricot jam and nutella
1 tart for all with apricot jam and nutella
Ingredients
  • 8.80 oz (250 grams) of flour
  • 3.50 oz (100 grams) of butter
  • 2.80 oz (80 grams) of sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • a piece of lemon peel
  • a pinch of salt
  • half teaspoon of baking powder
  • 2.80 oz (80 grams) of apricot jam
  • 2.80 oz (80 grams) of nutella or chocolate cream
Oven: 350 ° F
Time: 45 '+ half hour of rest


Mix the cold butter into small pieces with the sugar and egg yolks.
Add the flour and the lemon zest, salt and vanilla.

If you want the dough softer also put half a teaspoon of baking powder, but if I want a firmer dough does not add it!
Quickly knead dough by hand or with mixer, the result must be a compoundthat crumbles, but not too much.
Pack it all into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap for food.
Let stand an half an hour or more.

Put the dough in the refrigerator half an hour
Take a baking bowl 24 with the bottom opening, remove it and use it as a template to measure the base of the tart, cut with a knife.
Butter a baking dish and put in the dough.
With a knife, carve a checkerboard (Fig. 1) on the bottom of the dough and then filled, alternately, with the jam and nutella, to complete the board (Fig. 2).
with the other dough make 7 strips , with 3 of them form the margin and press them near the sides of the pan. With the other 4 form the typical decoration of tart  (Fig. 3).
Bake in oven at 180 ° C for 20/25 minutes, let cool and put out gently.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.
1 tart for all with apricot jam and nutella

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sabato 28 luglio 2012

Sweet baskets

Sweet baskets
Sweet baskets
Ingredients
  • shortbread 
  • 1/2 cup (150 grams) of apricot or peach jam
  • Mixed fruit (apricots, peaches, blueberries, kiwi ...)
  • 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
  • 2 tablespoons of jam and one of rum
  • 2 tablespoons of icing sugar
Oven at 350° F (180°C)
 
Prepare the  shortbread .
Cut with a cutter or a cup some rounds.
Brush muffin molds with seed oil and arrange the circles of pastry (Fig. 1) by placing them gently.
In each cup of pastry put a spoonful of jam.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes.
Remove from oven and let cool completely, then remove them from the molds.
Garnish with fruit slices prepared.
Heat the 3 tablespoons of jam advanced with a tablespoon of rum, and spread on the surface of a brush.
Sprinkle with a little 'icing sugar and serve!




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venerdì 11 maggio 2012

tart with jam

Tart with apricot jam
Tart with apricot jam

Ingredients
  • 8.80 oz (250 grams) of flour
  • 3.50 oz (100 grams) of butter
  • 2.80 oz (80 grams) of sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
  • a piece of lemon peel
  • a pinch of salt
  • half teaspoon of baking powder
  • 5.30oz (150 gams) of jam
Oven: 350 ° F
Time: 45 '+ half hour of rest


Mix the cold butter into small pieces with the sugar and egg yolks.
Add the flour and the lemon zest, salt and vanilla.

If you want the dough softer also put half a teaspoon of baking powder, but if I want a firmer dough does not add it!
Quickly knead dough by hand or with mixer, the result must be a compoundthat crumbles, but not too much.
Pack it all into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap for food.
Let stand an 
half an hour or more.

Put the dough in the refrigerator half an hour
Take a baking bowl 24 with the bottom opening, remove it and use it as a template to measure the base of the tart, cut with a knife.
Butter a baking dish and put in the dough, fill with the jan that you prefer!
with the other dough make 7 strips , with 3 of them form the margin and press them near the sides of the pan. With the other 4 form the typical decoration of tart.
Bake in oven at 180 ° C for 20/25 minutes, let cool and put out gently.
Sprinkle with powdered sugar.



type of jam: for the photo I used the apricot jam

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