The most long-awaited holiday for all men on March 8, following almost immediately after Valentine's Day on February 14, usually causes the representatives of the stronger sex to have questions. What to give beloved, desired, long-awaited? What to treat them to finally show off their culinary talents, expelling women from the kitchen for at least one day.
Well, dear men, we offer you an experiment. Try to cook on your own or with the help of children at least one type of baking according to the recipes given by us, or maybe all at once, to set up a luxurious tea festive table in the style of traditional English “five o'clock”. Go ahead and you will succeed. And your ladies, even those who tirelessly watch their figure, will be infinitely grateful to you.
Cookie tubes
Light, airy, almost weightless and surprisingly delicate taste tubes just melt in your mouth.
Ingredients:
- 3 squirrels
- 3/4 Art. Sahara
- 3/4 Art. flour
- 75 g oils
- 50 g chocolate
Cooking method:
- Preheat the oven to 190 ° C. Cover the baking sheet with parchment.
- Melt the butter. Melt chocolate separately. Sift the flour.
- Beat the proteins until stable peaks, gradually adding sugar. Continuing to beat at low speed, add flour and melted butter. Do not worry if the proteins fall off immediately - it should be so. The final dough should have a paste consistency.
- Put 1 tsp. the baking dish (no more than 4), spread them in a circular motion into thin discs. Using a culinary (or parchment) bag, apply an arbitrary ornament on the surface of the disks with chocolate and bake them for about 5-7 minutes. The cookie is ready when a brown crust appears on the outer circumference.
- At this stage, working quickly, roll up still hot cookies with a tube. As soon as they start to cool down a bit, it will be impossible to curtail them. When folding, you can also use the long handle of a wooden spoon, pre-lubricating it with vegetable oil. If you still can’t quickly roll the tubes, you can always return the pan for a few seconds to the oven, and the cookies will become softer again. Cookies can be stored for several weeks in a tightly closed container.
Jam oat squares
This is not only tasty, but also very useful cookies for family tea drinking, can be one of your favorites
Ingredients:
- 1 1/2 tbsp. oatmeal
- 1 tbsp. flour
- 2/3 Art. brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 175 g of cold cl. oils
- 1 tbsp. thick jam (preferably not very sweet)
Cooking method:
- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C. Cover the parchment with a square shape of size 8 "(20 cm).
- In a deep bowl, mix oatmeal, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, salt and baking powder.
- Cut cold butter into cubes, add to dry ingredients and rub into large crumbs with your hands.
- Put 2/3 of the whole mass on the bottom of the prepared form and press firmly. Apply a layer of jam and sprinkle with the remaining crumbs without pressing. Bake for 25-35 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool, cut into squares, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.
Pears in red wine
For this gourmet dessert, the fruit must be ripe, but not yet soft. If the pears are large, one for each guest is enough, if they are small, two. Use good red wine.
Ingredients:
For 4 servings:
- 4 strong ripe pears
- 750 ml light red wine
- 100 g peeled walnuts
- 175 g sugar
- Little cinnamon stick
- 6 peas of black pepper
- 1 bay leaf
- Juice and zest of 1 lemon
Cooking method:
- Peel the pears and place them vertically in a small deep pan so that they stand tight. Pour with wine and add the remaining ingredients (except lemon peel) to the syrup.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover lightly and leave to simmer for 30-40 minutes over low heat until the fruit is completely soft.
- Remove the pears with a slotted spoon and place in the serving plates. Increase the heat and boil the syrup to boil it twice from the original volume and make it brilliant.
- Sprinkle pears with syrup. Decorate the dessert with lemon zest and halves of walnuts on top - they look very nice with purple pears. Separately, you can serve vanilla cream or pudding.
Belgian waffles
Belgian waffles are traditionally thick with deep indentations so that as much jam, syrup and butter as possible get there. The best way to make Belgian waffles is from yeast dough. You will need a waffle maker for Belgian waffles!
Ingredients:
Ingredients for 12 pieces:
- 285 g plain flour
- 2 tbsp. l Sahara
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp dry yeast
- 375 ml of milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 eggs, split the yolks and squirrels
Roasted cream:
- 300 ml fat cream
- 55 g of powdered grill
Cooking method:
- It’s better to start cooking in the evening. Sift flour, sugar and yeast into a large bowl. Add butter, milk and vanilla essence and stir. Cover the bowl with foil and leave overnight.
- In the morning, first grease the waffle iron with oil and warm up. Add egg yolks to the dough and mix. In another bowl, beat the squirrels in a strong foam. Gently add them to the dough and stir with a metal spoon.
- To make the cream with the grill, put the cream in a clean bowl and beat until soft peaks. Add broken pieces to the roasting.
- For baking waffles, pour approximately 125 ml of dough into a heated waffle iron. Cook 3-5 minutes. Waffles should be crispy on the outside and tender inside. Serve them immediately with roasted cream and fresh berries.
Enjoy your meal!
