Cooking a sand pie

Shortbread, perhaps, the most universal. From it, you get great cakes, pies and cookies. In addition, the products for its preparation are very simple and accessible. Try baking a sand pie. He prepares rather quickly, but it turns out very tasty and delicate.

Lemon shortcake from short pastry

To make it, you need a glass of sugar, two lemons, a table. A spoonful of starch, 200 g of butter, 400 g of flour, soda or a baking powder, 250 g of 25% sour cream and a pinch of salt.

Knead the dough. In a deep bowl we sift the flour. We add a little salt. Chilled butter is rubbed on the grater over the flour. We connect the soda with sour cream and pour the mixture into the total mass. Knead the dough. It should be quite soft and elastic. We wrap it in a plastic bag or food film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour. At this time, thoroughly my lemons and cut them into medium-sized pieces, removing the bones. P Place the slices together with the sugar in the blender. Good whisk. It turned out a fragrant sweet-sour mixture, which we will fill a sand cake. Chilled dough is divided into two parts, one a little more, and the other - a smaller one. Lubricate the oil for baking. We roll the bulk of the dough into a flat cake. We put it on the bottom of the baking tray in such a way as to make the sides. On top of the dough, sprinkle with starch and lay out the lemon filling. A smaller piece is also rolled out with a rolling pin into a round bed. On top of them, close the sand pie, carefully zaschepyv edge of the two layers. In a preheated oven for 45 minutes, place the pastries. The preparedness of the dish is checked with a sharp wooden stick. Bon Appetit.

Shortcake with shortcake jam

To cook this sweet treat, you will need three eggs, 700 g of flour, 150 g of sugar, soda, salt, vinegar, half a liter of thick jam (preferably acidic) and a batch of margarine.

First we take the eggs and carefully separate the proteins from the yolks. We beat them with a mixer, gradually adding sugar. The mass must be white. Melt in the microwave oven margarine and mix it with yolks, hydrated soda and salt. Add the flour to the resulting mixture in small portions. The dough is thoroughly kneaded. On the eye, we separate the fourth part from it and place it in the freezer. The rest of the dough is divided exactly in half.

Sprinkle the buttered form with flour. Put there one part of the dough, evenly leveling it with your hands, and form the skirts. The second half is rolled out with a rolling pin. On the layer in the form, put ½ part of the filling. From above we cover a sand cake with a rolled layer of dough. Spread the rest of the stuffing. We get from the freezing chamber the frozen dough and we rub it on the grater from above directly on the jam. Sand cake bake no more than 40 minutes at a standard temperature of 180 degrees.

To make the dough as tasty and tender as possible, when preparing it, try to follow certain rules:

• Flour must be fresh;
• Before kneading hands, it is recommended to hold in cold water;
• Before rolling out or rubbing the dough is best placed in the refrigerator, so that the margarine does not melt.