How to bake a grated pie

It is difficult to list all types of dough, from which sweet pastry is prepared. But grated pie always walks in the favorites of the housewives due to its unpretentiousness to the special conditions and skill of the cook. For many, it is the smell of childhood with unchanged baking with jam or apples.

The classic grated pie was baked with plum jam, ground with currant or apple jam. But the most fragrant, as practice shows, is a product with jam. It is desirable that the filling is sour, then the cake will not be sweet and sweet.

Another great property that has a grated cake is the variability of taste sensations. In summer, various berries and juicy fruits can be used as a filling. Well it is possible to grate a cake with a cherry, from which it is first necessary to remove pits. Winter variant of berry filling is frozen food.

At the heart of the popular dessert is a short pastry made from flour, eggs, butter and sugar. Plus baking powder or soda. In the recipe you need to build on the amount of fat (butter, spread or margarine), since flour always leaves a different amount depending on the moisture and variety. Do not take flour with a high content of gluten, it makes the dough too tight, even hard.

On a medium-sized grated pie that fits optimally in a round shape with a diameter of 24-26 cm or a square with a side of 26-28 cm, you need to take a pack of 200 grams of flour. Prepare 3 cups of flour, but it does not always go all the way to the dough. It will take another egg and 150 grams of sugar. Sweetness can also be adjusted to your liking and take 30 grams of sugar more or less.

The technology for preparing the dough is simple and fast, you only need to get the oil in advance from the refrigerator so that it becomes room temperature. Mix the ingredients conveniently with a combine harvester. In the bowl, fill half the cooked flour mixed with soda, add the egg and sugar. Stir the mass until smooth and begin to gradually pour the rest of the flour. The result should be a tight dough.

Grated cake is prepared from a cold dough, so you need to place the batch in the freezer for about half an hour. To work with the test was convenient, before sending it to freeze, it is desirable to divide the whole piece into two parts. One to make a little more than another, an approximate ratio of 40% and 60%. Each part is wrapped in food film separately.

While the dough cools, you should turn on the oven and preheat the cake pan. The main preparation is to lay the bottom with baking paper to easily remove the delicate pie. Grease the paper fat is not needed, its enough in the test. Jam should be at room temperature, not too dense, cherries used in fresh or frozen form.

It's time to collect the cake. On a flat plate quickly grate a larger piece of dough on a large grater, distribute the grated mass on a baking sheet. Lightly press the layer with the palm so that it is more convenient to distribute the filling. If jam or jam is used as the filling, the layer should not exceed 0.5 cm, otherwise the pie will flow and burn. The cherry falls into one layer.

Exquisitely delicious turns grated pie with lemon. The zest is removed from the lemon with a fine grater and added to the dough during kneading. And the remaining parts of the lemon (it is better to take 2 pieces) grind the blender and add a couple of spoons of sugar. To lay out on the bottom rubbed layer.

On the filling, regardless of its kind, grate the second part of the frozen dough, do not crush. Put in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. After 15-17 minutes, the cake is ready. Cut into diamonds in a warm form, laying on a wooden board.