Flour is a unique ingredient often used in baked goods. Thanks to flour, you can not only knead the dough. Flour can make life a lot easier when cooking.
Raising heavy ingredients
Life hack allows you to raise such heavy ingredients as raisins, nuts, frozen berries, which go down during baking. If the filling falls down, don't worry, you can easily fix it by mixing the dough with flour (cinnamon or cocoa powder - it all depends on the recipe you choose). Then heavy products will not sink.
Protecting the cake from cracking
The secret to a flaky and tender cake base is cold fat. The butter should not be cut into pieces, but grated. You don't have to mix the butter with flour and the dough will be perfect. However, on the basis for the pie, cracks can still grow, for masking which it is obviously worth leaving a small piece of dough. If cracks do appear, you should mix water with flour and cover the "defect" with the resulting mixture. Then the base does not have to be done again.
Butter for the cake
To mix butter with dough, you need to melt it. The melted butter releases water, which, in turn, mixes with the flour proteins to form gluten. Gluten is a substance that makes bread or biscuits more viscous and viscous. If you want to make cookies crispy, you need to do the opposite procedure - immediately mix the butter with the dough so as not to let it melt. Then you get the desired crunchy cookie.
