French pastry for all kinds of baking

Very easy to use baking dough! French dough for all types of baking is a universal recipe for extremely delicate and airy yeast dough for delicious homemade pastries. This dough turns out to be very plastic and easy to work with. It can be used to make almost any pies with various fillings, as well as fluffy buns, pies and much more.
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Composition / ingredients

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 12 % 8 g
Fats 21 % 14 g
Carbohydrates 67 % 45 g
338 kcal
GI: 2 / 0 / 98

Cooking method

Cooking time: 4 h 40 min

Crumble fresh live yeast with your hands into a bowl. Also pour milk into a bowl with yeast (you can take any fat content). At the same time, it is not necessary to heat it, as it is usually done, you can take milk directly from the refrigerator. In the future, the yeast will still be activated, and the dough will be soft and airy. Mix all the ingredients together.

Then add sugar to the mixture of milk and yeast. If a pie with unsweetened filling is planned, its quantity can be reduced, or you can leave it like this. Mix everything again.

Grate butter on a coarse grater or chop finely with a knife. Butter can be replaced with margarine or cream spread. Combine the crushed butter with a mixture of milk, yeast and sugar.

Separately sift the required amount of wheat flour (premium white).

Gradually mix the sifted flour into the mixture of milk, butter, yeast and sugar. And then knead the soft and plastic dough with your hands. If necessary, add flour - the dough should not stick to your hands. If there is a food processor, then you can use it to knead the dough.

Form a ball of dough and put it in a bowl. Cover the bowl with cling film on top.

Place the dough in the refrigerator for about 4 hours. During this time, the dough should rise and increase in volume at least twice, or even three times.

After the dough has risen enough, you can get it out of the refrigerator and form pies, buns and other homemade pastries from it.

The main secret of this French dough is that it is absolutely not afraid of the cold. It can also be perfectly stored in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks - nothing will happen to it, and it will also "fit" well when re-kneading.

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Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Fresh yeast - 109   kcal/100g

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