How to cook delicious wind pies?

The history of homemade baking dates back hundreds of years. During this time, many tasty dishes and interesting recipes were invented. Particular attention among all this diversity is occupied by the wind pies. What are they, and how to cook such a miracle? This should be discussed separately and more thoroughly.

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Pies have been baked in Russia since time immemorial. They were cooked in the oven and made with different fillings. Patties were one of the most popular dishes.

These little fragrant products were prepared for the holiday, and also took on the road as a convenient and compact food. In our day, little has changed. True, now no one is using Russian stoves. There are new modern devices for cooking. In each house, the landlady has an oven for baking. Therefore, the name of the dish has become more specific. It specifically indicates the place where the products were prepared. Now these products are called nothing but spirit cakes. It's not a secret for anyone that the same flour products with a filling can be prepared on the stove, frying them in a lot of fat. But, given the specifics of the ancient technology, the role of dishes from the past is still more suitable just for the pies. Already in the name lies their two distinctive features. Firstly, it's pasties cooked in the oven. And, secondly, only this way of cooking is able to preserve their unique spirit.

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To prepare delicious wind pies you need to know:

• Product recipe;
• Rules for kneading the dough;
• Technique of modeling workpieces;
• Baking parameters.

Each of these indicators is important in its own way. Take, for example, the stage of forming a semi-finished product. There are several options for modeling, with which you can make the right patty. Depending on this, the following product forms are distinguished:

1. Oval. It occurs most often. A piece of dough must first be kneaded in a cake with a thickness of about half a centimeter. Then place the center of the filling and gently wrap the edges overlap. The junction point can be simply mashed or gently pricked with your fingers.
2. Round. The edges of the flat cake around the filling in the form of a bag, and then slightly take the received beam inward.
3. Triangular. First, the two adjacent sides of the flat cake should be folded at a 45 degree angle with the type of children's paper airplane, and then gently apply the opposite edge.
4. Relief. The edges can be worn in the form of a bow or a swaddling method.
5. Figured. Cake filled with thin dough flakes, giving them a certain shape.

Knowing all these secrets, to prepare beautiful pies will not be very difficult.

A simple option

As an example, you can consider the simplest recipe for brass pies with cabbage.

This will require the following products:

For the test:

300 ml kefir ½ cup sugar, a teaspoon of salt, 2 yolks, 300 grams of flour, 4 tablespoons vegetable oil and ½ teaspoon of soda.

For filling:

Carrots, cabbage, greens (dill), salt.

For lubrication:

Milk and egg yolk.

Everything is prepared very simply:

1. To prepare the dough, combine all the ingredients and mix them well. Soda and flour add to the last. Mass rolled in the form of a ball and immediately put in the refrigerator for maturation for 30 minutes.
2. At this time, you can tackle the filling. First you need to grind the vegetables. For this, it is better to use a shredder and a large grater. Prepared food products, place on a frying pan and lightly fry. Then add a little water and put it under the lid until the moisture evaporates.
3. Dough to divide into pieces and each of them to roll in a flat cake.
4. Put a little stuffing on the middle, and then form the product in any of the ways described above.
5. Each semifinished product should be coated with a prepared mixture.
6. Cover the parchment with parchment and place the received blanks on it.
7. Put them in the oven for half an hour, warming it up before 180 degrees.

This recipe for brass pies can be used at least every day. Time for this requires very little, and the pleasure of receiving everything.

Meat pies

In order for the product to be more airy, it is possible to prepare the oven pies on dry yeast. In this case, it is better not to use liquid fillings.

Perfectly suitable option of the following products:

On 370 grams of flour 1 onion, a teaspoon of salt, 250 milliliters of kefir, 2 eggs, 10 grams of salt, a tablespoon of sugar, 250 grams of meat, 100 milliliters of vegetable oil, 11 grams of yeast (dry, instant) and a little dill.

The cooking process will be somewhat different:

1. In a separate container, combine kefir, salt, sugar, butter and yeast. Stir until the sugar dissolves.
2. Add flour and gradually knead the dough. Roll it in the form of a ball, cover with a napkin and put it to ripen in a warm place for an hour and a half.
3. Peel the onions and meat in a blender. To make mincemeat it will only be necessary to add the egg and the chopped dill.
4. Ready dough is divided into portions, and then from individual cakes and minced meat to form pies.
5. Grease the semifinished products with yolk, using a brush for this.
6. Lay them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and send to the oven. Preliminary to make sure that the temperature in it has already risen to 18 degrees.

Wind pies on dry yeast will be ready, as soon as the appetizing crust blushes on top.

Similar option

Many housewives love to pamper their household baking. To do this, you can use different recipes. For example, cook the oven pies on yeast, but not dry, but pressed. There are some subtleties here.

The following components will be required for operation:

For the test:

For half a liter of milk, 2 eggs, a kilogram of flour, 50 grams of yeast, a pinch of salt, 70 grams of sugar and 20 milliliters of vegetable oil.

For filling:

Fresh apples, sugar.

For lubrication:

Egg and a little butter.

The method of preparation is very similar to all the previous ones:

1. In a bowl, pour warm milk. Put the sugar there, salt, yeast and leave for a few minutes.
2. As soon as the bubbles appear, add eggs and whip well.
3. Enter gradually flour, each time carefully all stirring. Add oil in the last place.
4. Dough ball cover with a towel and leave at room temperature for 1 hour.
5. Divide the mass into parts and roll each in the form of a ball. Leave for 15 minutes.
6. Apples rub, and then mix with sugar.
7. Each ball is stretched in the palm of your hand, put a few apples on it, and then wrap the edges neatly.
8. Billets place on a baking sheet and missed with a beaten egg.
9. Send them to the oven for 40 minutes at 165 degrees.

Before serving on the table, the prepared pies should be carefully oiled and allowed to stand for a while.

Unique dough

Some housewives do not cook cakes, believing that a long fuss with the test takes a lot of time. For them, you can offer a great option. It turns out that the dough for pies can be made in an accelerated way. And even without the use of eggs.

It will only be necessary:

For 4 glasses of flour, half a liter of water (or milk), 2 tablespoons of sugar and vegetable oil, dry yeast (11 grams) and 5 grams of salt.

The way of preparation is very interesting:

1. In a clean, dry container, fill up the flour.
2. Add salt and sugar.
3. In the center make a groove and pour oil in there.
4. Add water and mix everything.
5. Make hands final batch, and then wrap the ball tightly in a film and put it in the refrigerator.

After two hours the product can be taken out, but before starting work, it should be additionally crushed with the addition of a small amount of flour. Patties should turn out gentle, soft and airy. And this time you can take a stuffing.