Many housewives periodically face a situation when they do everything exactly according to the recipe, but the baking does not work out. The dough turns out to be too thick or too thin, as a result of which the product does not bake and goes straight from the oven to the trash can. The hostess is perplexed, because she took as much flour as was required. A possible reason for the failure may be the fact that the amount of flour in the recipe was incorrectly measured.
It is necessary
- - Flour
- - Measuring containers
- - Sieve
Instructions
Step 1
Flour is a free-flowing product, the properties of which vary from grade to grade. And even the same variety produced in different regions can have different moisture content. That is why recipes indicate the consistency of the dough, which you need to focus on when mixing ingredients.
Step 2
But, nevertheless, it is the errors in measuring the required amount of flour that play a fatal role in the manufacture of baked goods. The most common quantities found in recipes are grams, spoons, cups and glasses. Always read the entire recipe carefully before starting work. For example, sifting flour significantly increases in volume, so one glass of caked flour and one glass of sifted flour will weigh differently.
Step 3
Flour containers have a certain volume. One cup contains 240 ml, 1 teaspoon - 5 ml, 1 tablespoon - 15 ml and 1 glass - 200 ml. If the recipe measures flour into cups, fill the cup with flour, but do not tamp it. Slide your knife over the cup to remove the flour slide. The slide in cups and glasses should always be removed if the recipe does not say anything on this topic separately.
Step 4
1 cup of wheat flour of the first standard moisture contains 140 gr. And 1 cup of premium flour will contain only 120 grams of the product. A faceted glass, filled to the brim, will contain 120 and 110 grams of flour, respectively.
Step 5
When measuring flour with a spoon, scoop the food out of the bag and tap lightly on the spoon to shake off large peaks. You should have a neat little slice of about the size of a spoon. As a result, in a teaspoon you will have 8 grams of flour, in the dining room about 18-20 grams.
Step 6
If you measured the flour correctly, strictly followed the recipe, you should succeed, and you can proudly put fresh pastries on the dining table.
