How many times have you made pastries and failed in the kitchen? This is due not only to lack of experience, but also due to failing to follow valuable advice. Culinary experts recommend that you always follow some important tips when baking pastries. Here's what every skilled cook should know:
1. The flour for pastries, especially for Easter bread, filo pastry pies and tutmanik, is sifted several times.
2. The baking powder is added with the flour.
3. The soda is mixed with yogurt, vinegar and lemon juice.
4. A dough becomes fluffier and tastier if the yolks and whites are beaten separately into fluffy mixtures.
5. Beat the sugar and eggs until the mixture turns white.
6. Bake the pastry in a preheated oven.
7. Cake layers are cut after they have cooled. Use a strong thread or a special long knife for this purpose.
8.If buttery dough starts to stick and become loose, put it in the fridge to harden.
9.Always grease the cake pan or cake tin with butter and sprinkle it with flour, or bake on greased parchment/rice paper.
10. Yeast dough always rises at a moderate temperature, especially Easter bread need a heated room.
11. Always syrup a warm pastry with cold syrup, or a cold pastry with warm syrup.
