Brushwood is a thin, crispy cookie made from deep-fried strips of dough. This sweet dish is loved by many, the confection turns out to be delicious and just melts in your mouth.
There are several options for making brushwood dough. One of them requires the following ingredients:
- 0.5 cups of milk;
- 1 tablespoon sour cream;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- ¼ teaspoon of salt;
- 2, 5 glasses of flour;
- vegetable oil for deep fat.
Separate the yolks from the whites and stir gently. Pour in sugar and salt, pour in milk and put a spoonful of sour cream. Mix the mass thoroughly and add flour to it. Knead a very tough dough.
To make the brushwood crispy, pour in 2-3 teaspoons of rum or vodka when preparing the dough.
Roll it out with a rolling pin and cut it into strips. Fry them in a lot of vegetable oil until they have a golden brown crust. Remove the brushwood with a slotted spoon and place it on paper towels to absorb excess oil. After that, fold the cookies up and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Do not put a lot of sugar in the brushwood dough, otherwise it will not acquire its characteristic golden color when deep-fried.
Another option is honey brushwood. The dessert turns out to be very tasty and aromatic. You will need the following ingredients:
- 0.5 kg of flour;
- 5 eggs;
- 300 g of honey;
- 0.5 cups of water;
- vegetable oil.
The dough for making this brushwood is the same as for dumplings. Beat the eggs, add the sifted flour and knead to a stiff mixture. Roll into a thin layer and cut into strips.
The less liquid there is in the brushwood dough, the more it will crunch.
Make a syrup from honey and water. Mix them together and heat to dissolve the honey completely. Fry strips of dough in hot vegetable oil until golden brown. After that, dip in honey syrup and place on a plate in a slide.
Brushwood is not only a sweet dessert, it can also be an excellent crispy snack, for the preparation of which you will need:
- 1 glass of flour;
- 2 glasses of sour cream;
- 100 g of butter;
- 1 tablespoon of starch;
- freshly squeezed juice from half a lemon;
- 1 teaspoon of salt;
- 1 tablespoon of beer.
Dissolve the starch in lemon juice. Mash butter with salt, add yolks, sour cream, beer and diluted starch. Mix the mass thoroughly until smooth. Add the sifted flour and knead the dough. Then deep-fry like regular sweet brushwood.
The brushwood can be shaped in many different ways. The simplest thing is to cut the dough into strips and twist them. You can also make more complex shapes. For example, the sun. Make a 3 cm wide strip of the dough and cut it on one long side. Join the edges so that you form a circle and dip into the boiling fat with the cuts down.
Cut circles out of the dough using a glass. Cut the edges and pull slightly. Put 3 parts on top of each other and press them in the middle, when frying, you get a fantasy flower that will resemble an aster or chrysanthemum.
To get a lump, cut the dough into strips 1, 5 cm wide. Cut them slightly on one side and roll them up in a tube, lower them into boiling deep fat with the cuts down.
