Shortbread. Recipe for pie with berries and other delicacies

Short pastry is prepared quickly. It goes to the preparation of various pies and cookies. The most delicious sandwich products are filled baskets. This principle makes the famous Laurent pie, kish and many other delicacies. What kind of dough to give - sweet or unleavened, you decide. We will only tell you how the dishes are prepared and what are the advantages of each.

The charm of a simple shorttail test

Simple shortcake suits both for sweet dessert dishes, and for lunch meat, fish, vegetable and mushroom pies. It's all about stuffing. And they can be very different. Delicious short dough is obtained only from high quality products. It can be sweet - with eggs and sugar, and maybe fresh - only from flour and butter or margarine. Both those and other recipes deserve to be mastered. In this article we will teach you how to prepare baskets - the basics for sweet berry pies, and also tell you what the three-layer stuffing is.

Basket

For its preparation you need chopped shortcake. The recipe for a pie with berries does not require the addition of either sugar or eggs. All the charm of baking from a fresh short-baked sand dough is in contrast between a fragile and fresh shell and a lusciously sweet filling. From such a combination, dessert seems easier than in the case of sweet dough and filling. A delicate shortbread dough (a recipe for a pie with berries will be slightly lower) is easily removed from rigid molds with corrugated edges, baked quickly, preserves the taste for a long time. You can bake a few baskets on weekends, and on weekdays only make fillings, fill them with baskets and bake in the oven. The basket of unsweetened dough is a universal frame for all kinds of fillings. It excellently shades the sweetness of creamy or custard, jam and meringue in a dessert version, and also neutralizes the sharpness of canned vegetables or salted pepper meat, fish, etc.

We learn the preparation of the basis for a delicious treat

A short dough (a recipe for a pie with berries) is made as follows. There is a 250 gram packet of margarine and wheat flour - about three glasses (how many will take). As for flour, it is always preferable to grind from hard wheat for baking, but our dough should not be roamed, lifted or rolled into a transparent layer, so you can use ordinary flour of the highest grade. This is another advantage of sand dough before others.

Margarine must be removed in advance from the refrigerator to make it soft. Pour flour on the table. In the middle, put the margarine and cut it with a knife along with the flour. When the mass acquires a kind of homogeneity, it must be collected in a comer, wrapped in polyethylene and put for half an hour in the refrigerator. During this time the dough stabilizes, then it can be rolled into a layer. Rolled dough, its thickness - 0,6-0,8 cm, with the help of a rolling pin is transferred to a large mold, slightly pressed with fingers, cut off at the edge and pinched by a fork. All this can be seen in the photographs. In small forms, the dough on the walls and the bottom is spread out with fingers. It is important that no holes are formed.

The form with the dough is put in the oven and baked until ready. If the heat is high, then eight minutes will be enough. A ready-made basket should not be removed immediately - it can break. This can be done after it has cooled slightly.

Filling a berry basket

We told how to prepare a simple and unsweetened short pastry - a recipe for a pie with berries from any jam or fresh seasonal fruits - apricots, mulberries, raspberries, sweet cherries, etc. - those that are distinguished by increased sugar content. At the bottom of the baked basket is a sweet custard, on it - berries from jam or fresh, on them - a protein cream. Bake this delicacy with the technology of cooking meringue.

At the bottom of the ready baked and cooled basket you can put a sweet creamy cream, on it - jam or puree from mashed fresh berries. On berries - a ball of ice cream or whipped cream. This cake is not baked, but, on the contrary, it is further cooled in the refrigerator.

Sweet shortcake

Sweet dough is more suitable for biscuits. It turns out friable and, from a lot of oil, as if melting in the mouth.

To prepare, you need 100 g of softened margarine or butter mixed with the same amount of powdered sugar, two egg yolks and one glass of flour (it must be sifted). Stir a shovel from the silicone or wood. Shortbread dough does not like hands. Turning it into a more or less homogeneous coma, wrap the whole mass in polyethylene and send it to the refrigerator for cooling and stabilization. In half an hour it can be rolled out and cut by strips or, with the help of special molds, cut out the figures. Do not wait for it to get warm, that is, in a cool form, put it on a baking tray, stick candied fruits or nuts and bake. In a hot oven, the cookie will be ready in less than 15 minutes.