Tula gingerbread is famous not only for its amazing taste, but also for its prints, which are made using special shapes. Even if there is no way to make your own gingerbread with an original pattern, the taste of baking will still remain extraordinary.
Products required for making dessert
To prepare the Tula gingerbread, you will need the following components: 2 chicken eggs, 1 glass of granulated sugar, 125 g of butter, 1 tbsp. l. ground cinnamon, 1 tsp. soda, 5 tbsp. l. natural honey.
Wheat flour is used in the amount necessary to knead a sufficiently elastic dough. For a given amount of ingredients, you need about 2-2.5 cups of flour.
Ingredients for making the glaze: 2 tbsp. l. water, 4 tbsp. l. granulated sugar. For the layer, use any homemade jam, jam or boiled condensed milk.
Cooking Tula gingerbread
Chicken eggs, butter, sugar, cinnamon, natural honey and soda are mixed in a deep container and sent to a water bath. The mixture is heated for 10 minutes with constant stirring. You should get a homogeneous mass.
The mass is removed from the water bath and pre-sifted wheat flour is added to it, thoroughly kneading the hot dough. The finished dough should be flexible enough, but not too dense. When the dough has cooled, you may need to stir in some more flour.
The cutting board is covered with parchment paper. The dough is divided into 2 equal parts and cakes of approximately the same size are rolled out of them. You can cut 2 cakes from the rolled dough using a mold
One cake is greased with thick jam and covered with a second layer of dough. The top layer of dough is lightly pressed with your hands. A sheet of parchment paper with a baking sheet is carefully transferred to a baking sheet. From the remains of the dough, you can cut out figures and place them on the surface of the gingerbread, creating an original pattern.
You can simply apply a pattern to the surface of the dough using the tools at hand. For example, by pressing a colander into the dough, a pea gingerbread is obtained. It is not necessary to bake a large Tula gingerbread; it is much easier to cut the cake into small squares.
The oven is heated to 170 ° C and the baking sheet is sent to the middle level. Cooking Tula gingerbread will take no more than 15-20 minutes. Check the readiness of the baking with a wooden toothpick or match. If the dough is baked, remove the gingerbread from the oven.
The Tula gingerbread recipe involves the use of glaze to decorate the surface of the baked goods. Mix water and granulated sugar and bring the syrup to a boil. Grease the still uncooled gingerbread with syrup, so it is better to prepare the icing immediately before the end of baking.
