Gingerbread - a classic simple recipe (step by step)
Keep the simplest version of the pie for a quick meal.
The preparation is so easy that even a schoolgirl can do it. Take any jam to suit your taste. You can find other versions of the classic gingerbread on another page. Take:
- Jam - a glass.
- Kefir - a glass.
- Granulated sugar - ½ cup.
- Egg.
- Baking soda, slaked with vinegar - a small spoon.
- Flour – 2 cups.
Pour the jam into a bowl, add slaked soda, mix well. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes. The mixture will begin to bubble and sizzle.
Pour in kefir. Continue whisking until the mixture is smooth.
Add sugar and immediately break the egg. Mix the mixture thoroughly.
Start mixing in the flour. The main thing here is not to rush, introduce it in small portions. Knead, breaking up any lumps.
The mass will begin to thicken. Your task is to make a dough that is not liquid and not thick, similar in consistency to very thick sour cream.
Place baking paper on a baking sheet. Be sure to coat it with any oil, then the cake will not stick.
Pour out the test mixture. Place the baking sheet in the oven, preheated to 170 o C. Turn on the timer for 40-45 minutes (the time depends on the capabilities of your oven). After the specified time, the gingerbread is ready.
Lenten mat for the New Year's table
For the New Year you always want something tasty. And there’s nothing to be sad about on this score – recipes for New Year’s and Christmas baking are a dime a dozen. But those who fast need to find something special. In this case, you will need a recipe for Lenten tea gingerbread, which does not involve the use of butter and eggs. Nevertheless, it turns out to be truly New Year’s, tasty and aromatic.
Kovrizhka is a popular sweet dish in Russian cuisine. Traditionally, this type of pastry is made from gingerbread dough and is large in size. Before serving, the finished product is cut into pieces, glued with jam and decorated with glaze. Among the variety of gingerbreads, honey gingerbread is very popular, which is traditionally served with tea.
Tea honey gingerbread: video recipe
Ingredients
tea mixture or black tea – 10 g;
water – 100 ml;
jam (I made it with apricot jam) – 100 ml;
sugar – 150 g;
walnuts – 80-90 g;
raisins – 50 g;
wheat flour – 280 g;
baking powder – 10 g;
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sunflower oil – 100 ml;
ground cardamom - a pinch;
salt - a pinch;
ground cinnamon – 1 tsp.
How to bake a gingerbread with jam - recipe with milk
Keep another example of baked goods, milk-based. The pie will turn out no less fragrant and tasty.
Required:
- Jam - a glass.
- Milk - a glass.
- Flour – 2 cups.
- Egg.
- Sugar - a glass.
- Soda quenched with a bite.
Cooking technology:
- The method of kneading the dough is described in detail in the previous recipe. Repeat the steps one by one, putting jam in a bowl, then slaked soda, sugar, egg, flour.
- After kneading the dough, pour it into a greased pan.
- Bake the cake at 180 o C for 25-30 minutes.
Advice! When kneading the dough, add candied fruits, raisins, pieces of dried apricots, nuts, and citrus fruit zest. Then the baked goods will acquire a new taste and originality.
Video recipe for gingerbread with sour cream
A win-win option for quick baking. This is also a gingerbread, only mixed with sour cream. Follow the steps of the author of the video, and soon you will be treated to a delicious pie. Bon appetit!
Jam pie is familiar to many from childhood; it is a fragrant and fluffy pie with a very pleasant taste, which is prepared from a minimal set of ingredients. Our grandmothers often baked such a pie from old stocks of jam; the recipe was one of the most common in Soviet times.
Cooking steps
Pour boiling water over black tea or a tea mixture and let it brew, then strain. Add sugar, jam and refined sunflower oil to the tea and stir well. I used apricot jam with kernels, but did not add the kernels themselves to the dough. For the gingerbread, it is better to use only a liquid jam base.
Sift flour with baking powder to the liquid ingredients, add a pinch of salt and cardamom, as well as cinnamon.
Stir the mixture well and add washed and dried raisins, as well as chopped walnuts, and mix again.
The dough will be very thick.
Line a baking pan with parchment and place the dough in it, smoothing it out using a spatula.
Bake the gingerbread for 50-60 minutes (until ready) in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.
Cut the cooled Lenten gingerbread with jam into squares and you can serve it with tea. Very tasty and aromatic!
Bon appetit!
Tea mat "Student"
This simple gingerbread recipe is proof that baked goods made from scrap ingredients can also be satisfying and taste great. This option is ideal for housewives when you need to cook something very quickly.
To prepare, you will need a glass of strong tea leaves (brew 3-4 bags with boiling water), two tablespoons of honey, flour (1.5 cups), a tablespoon of sunflower oil, a glass of sugar and baking soda (½ tsp).
Combine sugar, liquid honey, warm tea and soda. After mixing, add butter and flour. Let's bake. All! Our pie is ready.
Using these recipes for tea cakes as an example, you can see how easy it is to prepare, and how much pleasure it is to treat yourself to aromatic pastries. Bon appetit!
Sometimes I realize that I got carried away with the preparations, and after the winter there will be too much jam left. In this case, I immediately start using it on pies and desserts. Including delicious gingerbread with jam. All that remains is to add a couple of products that you can always find in the bins of the refrigerator, and quickly knead the dough.
Tea gingerbread with tea leaves - the most delicious recipe with jam
Take:
- Flour – 300 gr.
- Granulated sugar – 120 gr.
- Baking soda - a teaspoon.
- Sunflower oil – 2 large spoons.
- Cocoa powder - the same amount.
- Jam (take syrup) – 2 large spoons.
- Raisins – 100 gr.
- Candied fruits – 100 gr.
- Lemon – ½ part.
- Walnuts – 100 gr.
- Powdered sugar - spoon.
- Water – 250 ml.
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How to cook:
- Heat water in a saucepan, add sugar, dissolve it until completely dissolved. Turn off the stove, let it cool slightly, pour in the jam syrup and sunflower oil.
- Slice the lemon, taste with a blender, add to the syrup. Next, send raisins with candied fruits.
- In a separate bowl, combine flour with slaked soda and cocoa powder. Crush the nuts almost into dust and add to the flour mixture.
- Combine both mixtures and knead the dough.
- Fill the greased pan with dough and smooth it out.
- Bake the cake at 180 o C. 30-35 minutes is enough and the gingerbread is ready. You can check readiness with a long stick.
I personally have known tea leaves pie since my student days. Without further ado, and without unnecessary movements, we, poor students, could often treat ourselves to a delicious pie.
Compound:
- Sugar - a glass.
- Egg.
- Flour – 1.5 cups.
- Tea brewing - a glass.
- Jam (can be replaced with honey) – 2 tablespoons.
- Soda – 0.5 teaspoon.
- Vegetable oil - a large spoon.
How to bake:
- Brew strong tea. You can use a regular tea bag, or a large spoonful of tea leaves per glass of boiling water.
- Mash the sugar and egg until light foam forms. Discard the jam, butter, soda.
- Mix the mixture thoroughly and pour in half of the brewed tea.
- Add flour in several stages. When the dough becomes thick, add the remaining tea leaves.
- Pour the dough into the mold and place in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes, preheating the oven to 200 o C.
Tea honey gingerbread recipe
According to this recipe, the sweet pie with spicy notes of aromatic seasonings and honey turns out tender and fluffy.
To prepare a tea gingerbread you will need:
- tea (brewing must be strong) – 1 glass
- cinnamon – ½ tsp.
- cocoa – 1 tbsp. l.
- egg – 1 pc.
- sugar – 1 glass
- soda – 1 tsp.
- honey - 3 tbsp. l.
- oil (vegetable) – ½ cup
- raisins – 100 g
- flour - 2.5 cups.
If you want to decorate the pie with milk fudge, then to prepare it you will additionally need: flour (3 tbsp), sugar (1 glass), half a glass of milk, a pinch of food coloring and butter (150 g). In addition, you can sprinkle the gingerbread with coconut flakes.
Preparation:
Let's start by brewing tea, which we pour into a bowl, where we will prepare the dough. Add honey there and stir. Beat in the egg and add sugar. Mix everything with a whisk.
Add sunflower oil (it is better to use refined oil). We add cinnamon to the dough (the combination of honey with this spicy seasoning is very popular and is often used in home baking recipes, in our case its presence is simply necessary), as well as cocoa, which, without significantly affecting the taste, will change the color of the pie to brown. Mix everything.
Add raisins, previously sprinkled with flour (to distribute them more evenly in the dough). To rise the dough and form a looser structure, use baking soda (it is not recommended to extinguish it in this recipe). And finally, add pre-sifted flour to the prepared mass. Mix everything.
The dough, reminiscent of biscuit in thickness, should be homogeneous, without lumps.
For baking we use any form: metal, ceramic, glass or silicone. To prevent our gingerbread from sticking to it, we first grease it with oil or cover the bottom and sides with parchment paper.
Preheat the oven to 160-180 degrees. Our pie bakes for 40-45 minutes. The fact that it’s time to take it out of the oven is indicated by a dry wooden stick, which we use to check the degree of readiness.
To decorate the tea gingerbread, prepare the glaze with honey: mix sugar with milk and, adding pieces of butter, bring to a boil, stirring continuously. After adding flour and food coloring, quickly stir everything and cook for another two minutes over low heat.
Pour milk fudge over the gingerbread and sprinkle with nuts, grated chocolate or coconut flakes. We leave the dessert on the table for an hour, and then enjoy its taste and aroma.
