People who know how to bake pies have thistalent. After all, this is a noble and ancient art. Noble it can be called because of the action it has on a person. Everyone noticed that when there is a scent of freshly baked pies in the house, there is some special feeling. It seems that in such a house peace and comfort settled forever. Ancient is an art, because a variety of recipes for pies knew also ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt.
Rights Russian proverb
It says that the cornet is not red, but redpies. In Russia pies have always been one of the most favorite dishes. All solemn events Russian people celebrated with pies on tables. Wanting to cook such a product, the Russian people decided what to choose: a recipe for cherry pie or a recipe for pie with cabbage. Or some other one. And what is most interesting, each holiday was preparing its own special pie. Thanks to this, you can now observe a huge amount of not only different fillings, but also different forms.
Most often Russian people cooked pies forsour yeast dough. For sourdough they took curdled milk, whey, and sour cream, and even beer and braga. The combination of acidic components in different proportions makes it possible to create unique tastes. Most often, the recipe for cherry pie was built on a sour test.
Two main types of pies
There are two main forms of pie: open and closed.
Bake open pies usually in the summer, at that timeas closed - in the cold season. After all, getting fresh berries in winter is not easy. But if you have a frozen cherry, for example, find any recipe for a cherry pie and cook an open pie from it. It will not be worse than with a fresh berry.
The closed cake has a distinctive feature -first it has a layer of dough, then the filling and ends with one more layer of dough. The main property of closed pies is called a huge amount of filling. After all, the more it is, the pie tastes better.
It is closed pies you can do with the mostcomplex fillings. For her most often used meat, fish or mushrooms. Such fillings as onions, eggs, rice are also popular. That is, products that contain a small amount of moisture. It should be noted that for the bottom the dough should be rolled a little thicker than for its "roof". The cake should be snapped from all sides. Otherwise, the filling can simply dry.
If fruit or berries are used as fillings, they usually prefer to bake an open top pie.
Open pie is a kind of pie with sweet orsalty stuffing. It does not cover with a layer of dough, but remains open. The filling of fruits and berries is simple, at the same time has an excess of moisture, which will evaporate from the open pie. Bake such a pie with a complex filling, most likely will not work. It will deform and break.
Cooking ourselves
We will not take the recipe for cherry pie.Most likely, he already knows many. But the apricot pie recipe is not so popular, it is worth trying to cook. We will do it with a chopped dough.
So, what is needed for the filling:
Mine, we cut in half and take out stones fromapricots. We add honey and powdered sugar. If the apricots are unsweetened, you can add more sugar. All this is stirred and let stand for 30 minutes. We spread the rolled dough on a baking sheet, we put apricots inside. We wrap it with an envelope. We put in a preheated oven in advance with a temperature of 180 degrees. Bake for half an hour.
Now we will prepare a grated pie recipe which most liked.
Ingredients:
- dough: flour - 2 cups, oil - 200 grams, eggs - 2 pcs., 1 glass of sugar, half a spoonful of soda, which is dissolved in two teaspoons kefir.
- Filling: 3 apples, cottage cheese, jam.
To begin with, we rub eggs and sugar, addoil and other components. Mesem dough. After preparing it, divide into two parts: one rubbed on a grater on a baking tray. We put for a couple of minutes in the oven. After that, take out the dough, add the filling and top with another piece of dough. Bake until ready.
Here are some simple recipes!
