supplement
Bacon pie's practice:
Cake shell:
1) medium gluten flour: 300g.
2) Water:175g
3) Salt: 1/4 teaspoons (teaspoons)
Soft pastry:
1) low-gluten flour: 70g.
2) Pepper powder: 2g.
3) Salt: 3g
4) Peanut oil: 50g. The original recipe of Li Liangui Pie required the use of oil in the process of making bacon. Later recipes thought that oil such as lard could be heated and poured on spices such as pepper to achieve a similar effect.
Exercise:
The first step is to make dough. Pour 300 grams of medium gluten flour on the chopping board and draw a nest in the center of the flour with a scraper or other tools. The diameter of this nest should be as large as possible, so that after the water is poured in, the water level is low and it is not easy to leak out.
Pour 175g water into the flour center, add about 1/4 teaspoons of salt, and stir well by hand.
Then carefully mix the flour on the inner wall into the water bit by bit, and the action must be gentle. When clear water turns into thick batter, all the flour will be made into dough together.
Knead the dough evenly and smoothly by hand, which takes about 15 minutes. Spread some peanut oil on the dough surface, wrap it with plastic wrap and put it in the corner of the chopping board for 20 minutes.
The second step is to make soft noodles. In pastry making, the only way to get a crisp layered feeling, whether Chinese or western, is to use oil to layer the cakes, just like the classic French croissant, with a thin layer of butter between the fermented cakes. 、
Firstly, put 70g low-gluten flour (if there is no low-gluten flour, it can be replaced by 56g medium-gluten flour+14g corn starch) into a heat-resistant container, add 2g pepper powder (preferably freshly ground pepper powder, which will taste more fragrant) and 3g salt, take a small pot, add 50g peanut oil and heat it on the stove.
Then pour the pepper directly. Hot oil can bring out the fragrance of pepper powder and mix it with flour.
The characteristics of the soft pastry are: it can be easily spread on the dough, but it will not flow freely.