It takes some culinary experience to make delicious and flavorful cakes. In addition, the pies also need to be beautifully covered. With a few practice, you will get great decorative items.
Dough for making pies
One of the secrets of how to sculpt beautiful pies is to make dough. It should be elastic and tight. It will not work to mold pies that will keep their shape from liquid pastry.
So, first, get busy making the dough. To do this, take 400 grams of finely ground wheat flour, 0.5 tsp. salt, 100 grams of melted butter, 150 ml of cold (boiled) water. Sift flour. Then add flour and salt to a large bowl and stir. Gently pour melted butter into the flour. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingers: the mixture should resemble bread crumbs. Now pour water into the flour and make a dough. Knead it for 5-10 minutes until smooth and soft. The finished dough should not stick to your hands. Roll the dough into a ball. Sprinkle it lightly with water, set it aside and cover with a cloth. Let it sit for 30-40 minutes. At this time, you can prepare the filling for the pies.
When the filling is cooking, take out the dough and divide it in half. Roll a sausage about 5 cm in diameter from each part. Cut the sausage at 3 cm intervals. You will have balls of dough. Roll out an oval cake with a diameter of 15 cm from each ball. Now, cut each cake in half. Take one half in your hands and moisten the straight edge of the cake with water from center to end. Fold both ends of the straight side to form an envelope or cone. Pinch the cone firmly with your fingers. Fill the pie with minced meat two-thirds. Then pinch the edges. Now you can beautifully close up the pie.
Options for the design of the edges of the pie
There are several ways to wrap pies: pigtails, flagella, weaving, and so on. In order to fill up the pies beautifully and in an original way, you need sensitive fingers and a little water. The more beautiful you decorate the patties, the more compliments they will receive.
So, one of the simplest options is a pigtail. Take the pie in your left hand, and bend the edges of the pie with the thumb of your right hand so that you get a twisted string. If the braid falls apart, dip your fingers into the water and the dough will become more manageable. Press the dough firmly against the edge so that the pattern does not unwind. Formed on the other end of the pie, pinch off the tip of the dough or carefully wrap it up.
Turn the rim of the pie into an original hedgehog. To do this, pinch the edges of the pie so that you get triangles. The distance between the triangles can be from 0.5 to 1 cm. The original triangles can be obtained by making small cuts in the edges of the pie with an interval of 1 cm. Then simply fold the notched edges diagonally.
If you don't cut the flatbread in half, you can try covering the pies in the shape of an envelope. So roll out the cake and cut the edges to make a square. Place the filling in the center. Now take the top two edges and tape them at a 45 degree angle. Then close the two bottom edges. Finally, close the center: you will have an envelope. Pinch the seams well and make bundles out of them.
