Sponge cakes, pies and pastries have a light, airy structure. A correctly baked biscuit, without exaggeration, “melts” in the mouth. With a minimum number of ingredients, to bake a fluffy biscuit, strict adherence to baking conditions and certain skills are required.
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You will need
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- 6 eggs;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 3/4 cup flour;
- optional: 1 tsp baking powder or 1 tbsp. starch.
Instruction manual
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The basic principle for making biscuit dough is to quickly beat, knead, and bake immediately. Utensils, brooms or a mixer used for whipping should be perfectly clean and dry. Sift the flour to enrich it with oxygen.
2
Grease a baking dish with oil, sprinkle with crushed crackers or semolina. You can line the shape with baking paper by cutting out a circle equal to its diameter and a strip to the height of the walls. These preparations should be made before kneading the dough.
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Warm eggs to room temperature. Separate the yolks from the proteins and beat with sugar: first, the yolks until the sugar is completely dissolved and increase in volume by 2-3 times, and the proteins until the formation of snow-white stable peaks. You can beat eggs without division, but in this way the mass is well saturated with air, so that the biscuit acquires a delicate porous structure.
4
Add the whipped squirrels to the yolks, gently interfering them from the bottom up with a spatula or spoon. Pour in flour, which, if desired, can be mixed with baking powder or starch, but this is not necessary - the dough will rise due to well beaten eggs.
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Put the mixed dough in the prepared form and put in the oven. Bake a biscuit at a temperature of 180 degrees. At a higher temperature, a crust forms on the surface, the center does not bake, the bottom burns.
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During the first 10-15 minutes, do not open the oven, as the biscuit may settle and condense. Readiness, check, punctured cake with a thin wooden stick: if it is dry and clean, then the product is ready.
7
If the paper that has been covered with paper is stuck to a baked biscuit, place it on a damp towel for several minutes, then carefully peel off the paper.
8
The biscuit that is baked for cake or pastries can be soaked in syrup: boil 1 cup of water, pour 1 cup of sugar, bring to a boil and completely dissolve the sugar, remove the foam and cool. Add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice and 1 tablespoon of brandy, rum or dessert wine.
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