Berry pie - general principles and methods of cooking
In biology, berries are fruits with juicy pulp and small seeds. From a scientific point of view, it is not only currants, gooseberries, grapes, but also watermelon and tomato. But cherry and olive are not berries, but stone fruits, strawberries, raspberries and strawberries are polycortical and polycore. However, one thing is a scientific definition, and another is our usual culinary ideas, especially when it comes to such a process as cooking berry pie.
Berries for berry cake can be taken absolutely any, regardless of their botanical description. In the summer, you need to pamper yourself every day with fresh raspberries or strawberries, blackberries, gooseberries, and then for the whole year you store vitamins, which means health. Despite the fact that this is a summer treat, and the season of each of them is transient, you can collect and freeze them in the freezer, cook compotes and jam, berry pie will be just as tasty all year round and every time is different.
Berry Pie - Food Preparation
For the test, you will need a standard set of products - flour, sugar, sour cream and eggs. Berries for the filling should be carefully sifted, separated bones, spoiled copies and cuttings. Let them drain well through a sieve or colander.
Berry Pie - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Cheesecake with Black Currant Cake
This beautiful holiday dessert resembles cheesecake with cottage cheese, and berries add juiciness and tenderness. It is even easier to prepare a cheesecake, and the result is far superior to the taste.
Ingredients: flour (250 grams), margarine (150 g), sugar (1 cup + 150 grams filling), egg, vanilla sugar, soda (half a teaspoon), sour cream (250 grams), powdered cottage cheese (200 grams), starch (100 grams). Filling - black currant (300 grams).
Cooking method
Beat eggs with sugar, add pieces of margarine softened at room temperature, add soda. Pour flour and starch, knead the dough. Soft dough, powdered with flour, is easily taken by hand. Send it in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Curd cheese through a sieve, or knead in a blender or mixer, add an egg and 2/3 cup of sugar, sour cream. Rub the curd with additives and get a creamy mass. Lubricate the baking dish with butter and sprinkle with flour. We spread the dough with a cake, form the sides and bottom. We spread the curd mass on the dough, level the surface. Berries put on the cottage cheese and put in the oven. Juicy berries that are baked quickly (raspberries, blueberries, blueberries, we have black currants) can be laid out 20 minutes after the start of baking. Temperature - 180 degrees. The cake turns out just wonderful, not at all simple.
Recipe 2: Sandwich cake with frozen berries.
Take note of this recipe, if your refrigerator has enough frozen varieties of berries. All year round, you can pamper yourself with this wonderful cake of sandy-biscuit dough. The upper torn layer after baking becomes more crumbly and just melting, and from the berries you can make a platter or choose one variety - in any case, it is very tasty.
Ingredients: margarine (200 gr.), Sugar (1 cup), soda (half a teaspoon), egg (1 pc), flour (3.5 cups), icing sugar for decoration, sour cream (250 grams), berries (800 gram).
Cooking method
Grind the egg with sugar, add the remaining ingredients: flour, sour cream, soda. Get soft supple dough. We divide it into two unequal parts. In a greased margarine form lay out most of the dough, forming rim, then stuffing. For the filling, knead the frozen berries and beat with sugar. The second piece is torn off in small pieces and gradually close the filling. Dough sticking to the hands is easy to remove with flour. We bake in a hot oven at a temperature of 180 degrees, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Recipe 3: Yeast Berry Cake
Yeast pie is the most satisfying pastry. A soft muffin is all the more pleasant because not so much time is spent on cooking it. A standard set of products: yeast, sour cream, flour - and the perfect addition to lunch or breakfast is provided.
Ingredients: milk (1 cup), yeast (15 grams), salt (half a tablespoon), sugar (two glasses), any fresh berries (1 kilogram), flour, vanilla sugar, sour cream (1 glass).
Cooking method
Dissolve the yeast in half a glass of warm milk, salt and pour a glass of sugar. Add flour to the consistency of pancakes. In a cushy place we leave to ferment our brew. When the dough rises well, add to it the sifted flour, butter, milk and sugar, margarine and eggs add at the end. Elastic dough should stand for 20 minutes. We mix it up to a homogeneous mass, roll it into a layer 3 mm thick. We interfere with the baking dish. Filling: Cover the berries with a glass of sugar and let stand for 15-20 minutes. Remove the protruding juice, fill in the form and level. Bake for 30-40 minutes.
Berry Pie - tips from experienced chefs
How to freeze berries
Before freezing the berries must be carefully picked and rinsed. Let the water run off and put on a sheet of paper in a single layer, put in the freezer. As soon as they froze, pour into a container or bag and leave in the refrigerator. The storage container should be tightly closed so that the berries do not absorb smells, such as meat or fish. Different types of berries are stored separately.
Strawberries: spread out in one layer, sprinkle with sugar. Collect in a container and close.
Raspberry: dark varieties are taken for freezing. Crimson beetle larvae can be destroyed by immersing the peeled berries for a few minutes in saline solution, then removing the floating larvae and rinsing twice in a colander under running water. Drain the raspberries and sprinkle with sugar to freeze in one layer.
Currant: put washed and sifted currants in a bag or make mashed potatoes with sugar. Store in small containers in the freezer.
Gooseberry: remove the stem and seed. Rinse and place in a plastic bag.
Cranberries: This berry is the most unpretentious, it is well kept until the frost and freezer. Whole berries do not lose their beneficial properties until the spring, in this respect, it can only compete with lingonberries, which is stored without freezing until the spring.
Freezer capacity is used more efficiently if storage containers are rectangular. You can also remove the frozen briquettes from the container and store them, packed in several plastic bags.
