SWEET DOUGH FOR PIES AND TARTS
Steps:
- To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter. Using your hands or a pastry blender, rub the butter into the dry ingredients by breaking it into tiny pieces, continuously pinching and squeezing it into the dry ingredients. Be careful to keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible. Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl and pour over the flour and butter mixture. Stir in with a fork, continuing to stir until the dough begins to hold together, but still appears somewhat dry. Scatter flour on the work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth. To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1-second intervals to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1-second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible, about 15 pulses in all. Add the egg(s) to the work bowl and pulse ten times or so, until the dough forms a ball. Scatter flour on the work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth. Press the dough into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough). Sandwich the disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6-inch disk. Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour.;
MEAN CHEF'S SWEET TART DOUGH
This was originally posted by Mean Chef. I have made this tart dough many times and swear by it for any sweet tart invention. Mean Chef was/is a true cooking inspiration for me. Source: "Desserts."
Provided by spatchcock
Categories Dessert
Time 15m
Yield 2 9inch tart shells
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Process dry ingredients in cuisinart.
- Cube butter and add.
- Pulse until cornmeal consistency.
- Add cream and egg yolk.
- Process until dough just comes together.
- You may need to add a touch more cream.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1784.2, Fat 108.7, SaturatedFat 66.8, Cholesterol 473.4, Sodium 34.6, Carbohydrate 182.6, Fiber 4.6, Sugar 50.6, Protein 21.8
SWEET DOUGH FOR PIES AND TARTS
Provided by Food Network
Categories dessert
Time 2h
Yield one-crust pie, about 10 ounces
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter. Using your hands or a pastry blender, rub the butter into the dry ingredients by breaking it into tiny pieces, continuously pinching and squeezing it into the dry ingredients. Be careful to keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible. Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl and pour over the flour and butter mixture. Stir in with a fork, continuing to stir until the dough begins to hold together, but still appears somewhat dry. Scatter flour on the work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth.
- To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1-second intervals to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1-second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible, about 15 pulses in all. Add the egg(s) to the work bowl and pulse 10 times or so, until the dough forms a ball. Scatter flour on the work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth.
- Press the dough into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough). Sandwich the disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6-inch disk. Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour
SWEET TART DOUGH
This formula for pâte sucrée comes from the pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, with whom I wrote a book. It may surprise you that everything, even the butter, is at room temperature when you mix the dough. Room temperature butter will mix together thoroughly and quickly with the other ingredients, so you won't find chunks of it when you roll out the dough. It also allows you to mix the dough quickly, minimizing air bubbles and the development of the gluten in the flour, which would result in too much elasticity in the dough, causing it to shrink during baking. He uses powdered sugar, rather than granulated, because it melts and combines quickly with other ingredients, again allowing you to mix the dough quickly. Almond flour contributes flavor to the dough and gives it a nice texture, but you could substitute regular flour if you have a hard time finding almond flour. Finally, he uses cake flour because it has a lower gluten content than all-purpose flour. Once you mix the dough it requires a long rest in the refrigerator - preferably overnight - so that the gluten developed during mixing can relax and the starch in the flour can absorb liquid. It should remain cold when you roll it out, and ideally you should give it another overnight rest in the fridge, uncovered, once it is rolled out, so that the pastry dries out even more. If you don't have the extra day, give it at least an hour.
Provided by Martha Rose Shulman
Categories snack, pastries, pies and tarts, dessert
Time 1h
Yield Two 9-inch pastry shells
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In a standing mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and salt on medium speed for 1 minute. Scrape down sides of bowl and paddle and add confectioners' sugar. Combine with butter at low speed. Scrape down bowl and paddle again, then add almond flour and vanilla and combine at low speed.
- Gradually add egg and a scant 1/2 cup cake flour (55 grams). Beat at low speed until just incorporated. Scrape down bowl and paddle. Gradually add remaining cake flour and mix just until dough comes together. Do not overbeat. Dough should be soft to the touch.
- Scrape dough out of bowl and gently press into a 1/2-inch-thick rectangle. Double-wrap airtight in plastic and refrigerate for at least 3 hours, preferably overnight.
- Very lightly brush two tart pans with butter. (You should not be able to see the butter.) Weigh dough and cut into two equal pieces. Wrap one piece and refrigerate while you roll out the other.
- Lightly dust parchment paper or a silicone baking mat with flour. Tap on dough lightly with a rolling pin to make it pliable. Begin rolling gently, three times in one direction, from the edge nearest to you to the far edge. Rotate dough a quarter turn clockwise. (If it's sticking, run an offset spatula underneath to loosen it, then gently lift it and lightly dust underneath with flour.) Repeat process until dough is about 1/4-inch thick and 11 inches in diameter. Check often to make sure dough is not sticking, and dust with flour as necessary.
- Cut dough into a 10 1/2-inch circle. (If it's on a silicone mat, flip it over onto a piece of lightly dusted parchment and peel off the mat first.) Very lightly dust dough with flour; brush away excess flour with a dry pastry brush.
- Loosely roll dough onto rolling pin, then unroll it onto a tart pan, making sure to cover pan evenly. Gently ease it into the pan so there is no gap between the bottom edge of the ring and the bottom of the pan (don't press hard or dough will be thinner in spots). Cut away excess dough by holding a paring knife perpendicular to the edge of the pan and spinning the pan around against the edge of the knife. Use a fork to poke little holes in dough across entire bottom of shell.
- Refrigerate dough, uncovered, for at least 1 hour and preferably overnight. If freezing dough, refrigerate for 1 hour, then double-wrap in plastic wrap, then in foil. Label, date and freeze. Repeat process of rolling out dough with the other dough half.
- Heat oven to 325 degrees with rack positioned in middle. Place tart pan on a baking sheet. Line shell with parchment and fill to the top with pie weights. (If dough is coming directly from the freezer, you don't need to defrost it first or use weights.) Bake for 15 minutes. Remove parchment and weights and return to oven for 10 to 15 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely on a rack (with pan still on top of baking sheet) before filling.
MEAN CHEF'S TRIPLE LEMON LAYER CAKE
I adopted this recipe on 09-06, which was originally submitted by Mean Chef. This is Mean Chef's comments " Light and tender cake filled with lemon curd and frosted with a lemony butter frosting"
Provided by lemoncurd
Categories < 4 Hours
Time 1h15m
Yield 1 8inch layer cake
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350F; position rack in middle of oven.
- Crease and flour two 8x2-inch round cake pans.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together.
- Pulse 1/4 cup of the sugar with the zest in a food processor until well combined.
- Beat the butter and lemon sugar in a mixer until light and fluffy-1 to 2 minutes.
- Add remaining 1 1/2 cups sugar and beat until smooth.
- Beat in 1/4 of the milk until just blended.
- On low speed, add flour mixture alternating with remaining milk in 3 batches, scraping as needed.
- Beat until just blended.
- In a clean bowl, whip egg whites on medium speed until foamy, add cream of tartar, increase speed to high, beat until whites just hold stiff peaks.
- Add 1/4 of the whites to batter and fold in with a whisk or spatula.
- Fold in remaining white 1/4 at a time.
- Divide batter evenly between cake pans and smooth tops.
- Bake until tester in center comes out clean- about 35-40 minutes.
- Let cool for 10 minutes, remove from pans and cool completely on rack.
- Cut each cake in half horizontally using a long serrated knife.
- Place one layer on a serving plate, cut side up.
- Spread with 1/3 cup of chilled lemon curd.
- Lay another cake layer on top, spread with lemon curd and repeat with 3rd layer.
- Top with fourth cake layer.
- Up to a few hours before serving, spread a thin layer of frosting on cake, filling gaps as you go.
- Chill to firm crumb coat for about 30 minutes.
- Spread remaining frosting decoratively over sides and top of cake.
- Scatter top with lemon zest as garnish.
- TO MAKE FROSTING: In an electric mixer, beat butter and lemon zest until light and fluffy.
- Add confectioners sugar in batches and beat until light and fluffy.
- Add lemon juice and beat for 1 minute.
- Can be made a couple of hours ahead and kept covered at cool room temperature.
MEAN CHEF'S STEAK AU POIVRE
I adopted this recipe after its original poster, Mean Chef, departed the site. I have made this recipe a few times, without the sauce to cut calories, and I never would've thought steak made in the oven would be so delicious!!! Mean posted the recipe on Apr 3, 2003. (IHHDRO)
Provided by newspapergal
Categories Steak
Time 25m
Yield 4 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Heat the oven to 500°F.
- Sprinkle the steaks with salt on both sides, and then press the ground peppercorns into the steaks on both sides.
- Set a large cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat and add just enough olive oil to make a light film.
- When the oil is very hot, add the steaks, cooking until nicely browned on one side, about 3 minute.
- (If the pan is small, work in batches.) Flip the meat over and put the skillet in the oven.
- For medium-rare steaks, roast for 3 minutes for 6-ounce steaks; 4 minutes for 8-ounce steaks.
- Check for doneness with the tip of a knife or by pressing with your fingertips, keeping in mind that the steaks will cook a bit more as they sit.
- Transfer the steaks to a warm plate and tent with foil.
- With a spoon, remove any fat from the skillet.
- Put the skillet back on the burner and heat to medium high.
- Add the wine and cook until it's reduced to 1/4 cup, about 7 minutes, scraping up the browned bits with a wooden spoon. REMOVE PAN FROM THE HEAT.
- Whisk in the butter a slice at a time, whisking until completely melted.
- Taste and adjust the seasonings, drizzle the sauce over the steaks, and serve immediately with more sauce on the side.
- Variations: add shallots to the pan sauce, finish with chopped parsley.
- substitute 4 tbl cognac and 1/2 cup dark stock in place of the wine.
- substitute 1/4 cup cream and 1/4 cup cognac for the wine- reduce slightly to thicken.
SWEET TART DOUGH
Make and share this Sweet Tart Dough recipe from Food.com.
Provided by JubalHarshaw
Categories Dessert
Time 10m
Yield 1 tart crust
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Combine the butter and sugar in a medium mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with paddle and beat on medium speed for 5 minutes until the mixture is fluffy, soft and almost white in color.
- Beat in the vanilla and the egg yolk and continue beating for another two minutes until the mixture is soft and resembles butter cream.
- Place the flour in a strainer and sift it all at once over the butter mixture using a rubber spatula.
- Fold the dough until no traces of flour remain.
- Scrape the dough onto the center of a 12 inch square of plastic wrap and shape it into a rough disk.
- Cover with another 12 inch piece of plastic and press the dough until it is about 1/4 inch thick.
- Refrigerate.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1638.1, Fat 97.7, SaturatedFat 60.1, Cholesterol 433, Sodium 23.3, Carbohydrate 170.4, Fiber 4.2, Sugar 51.1, Protein 19.5
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