Pies with berries. Recipe

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Pies with berries are always associated with childhood and grandmother. This dish is imbued with an atmosphere of home comfort, and the wonderful aroma of vanilla and berries sets you up only for good thoughts and awakens your appetite.

That is why such pastries are one of the most favorite dishes in almost every family. Usually recipes are passed down from generation to generation, but few dare to make pies with their own hands. The fuss with the dough and the time to cook are frightening.

In this article, we will consider a recipe for pies, the dough in which is soft, airy and just melts in your mouth. And the berry filling gives a fresh and juicy taste. The cooking time remains the same, but the result is worth the wait.

Ingredients for this baking

To make pies with berries from yeast dough, the hostess will need the following set of products:

• about 900 grams of sifted flour;
• yeast (you can take pressed 25 grams or dry 10 grams);
• whey, milk, kefir, curdled milk or just boiled cooled water - 0.5 liters;
• three eggs (two of which will go into the dough, and one will be neededfor greasing already stuck together pies);
• butter or margarine (100-150) grams;
• granulated sugar (4 tablespoons);
• vanilla sugar (one sachet);
• s alt (a little, usually added at the tip of a knife);
• a little sugar for the berries (to taste);
• berries (it can be lingonberries, blueberries, blueberries - 500 grams).

Dissolving yeast

When kneading yeast dough for pies with berries, you can use half a liter of any liquid, but the best option would be kefir, which must be slightly heated to 35-40 degrees.

Add yeast to the warmed liquid, knead it well and leave to activate for 5 minutes, and preferably 10.

When using not pressed, but dry yeast, such a manipulation will also not be superfluous, it will only help the dough to fit even better.

After the yeast in kefir swells and shows activity, you need to add a third of the volume of flour to them and mix well with a spoon or whisk.

Cooking muffins

Butter or margarine needs to be slightly warmed up to the consistency of very thick sour cream and add two eggs, vanilla sugar, s alt, granulated sugar to it and grind it all into a homogeneous mass. This manipulation can be done with a fork, whisk or blender.

In the resulting mass, add half the remaining amount of sifted flour. This must be done slowly, adding flour in small quantities.

Next, combine the muffin with a mixture of kefir, flour and yeast. Mix until smooth.

In the almost ready dough, you need to add the flour that remains. If everything is done correctly, the dough will turn out elastic and soft. You need to knead it until it stops sticking to your hands.

Yeast dough always needs time to "grow up". It is necessary to leave our dough, having previously covered it with a towel or cling film in a warm place. During this period of time, it usually increases its volume by two and a half times.

Making wild berry pies

On the table to be sprinkled with flour, lay out the already risen dough. Start separating small pieces of dough for future pies with berries. They should generally be about the size of a chicken egg, although larger or smaller pieces can be cut off.

Next, you need to roll out each blank to a thickness of half a centimeter using a rolling pin.

Wild berries (and it can be blueberries, and raspberries, and strawberries, and mulberries) rinse well under running water. Drain the berries in a colander or sieve to drain the water.

Put dry berries on a rolled piece of dough and only then sprinkle them with a little sugar. If you sprinkle all the berries with sugar at once, they will release juice, and it will be very difficult to make a pie.

Need to pinch the edges like a dumpling.

Baking pies with berries

Put all the pies on a baking sheet, pre-greased with butter, vegetable oil or simply sprinkled with flour. Still not badan option is to use parchment paper, but this should also be slightly greased with any kind of fat.

Each pie should be placed seam side up. You need to do this so that the filling does not leak out, otherwise it will burn the pie with berries in the oven.

There should be a distance of several centimeters between products. The distance must be observed, because during baking, each of the pies will increase in size, and they can easily stick together.

Before you put the berry pies in the oven, leave them for ten minutes to increase their volume.

Beat one egg with a whisk until smooth and grease the surface of each pie with it. This action will give the pastry a beautiful ruddy color.

The oven must be heated to 200 degrees, place a baking sheet in it. Bake for about twenty five minutes. Under no circumstances should the oven be opened during baking, otherwise the temperature will drop and the dough may fall.

Pies with berries can be eaten slightly warm or cold. They harmonize well with milk, kefir, tea or coffee. Such pies are also well combined with compotes or fruit drinks.

If you do not have berries on hand, then you can use fruits as a filling. For example, apples and pears, pre-cut into small cubes, are also great. A lot of people also like pies made from yeast dough, baked in the oven, stuffed with plums or apricots.

In any case, fruit or berry filling can add to bakingjuiciness, pleasant aroma and amazing taste.