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The cake on the custard sponge
Spring, though very slowly, but still approaching. This means what's coming is not only a great divine feast, but in our next test of culinary skill. After all, good to bake the right cake can not every housewife. What do you mean the cake right? There are so many beautiful, lush cakes, which seems to be, and there is no need to bother. Do You remember what the cakes were baked by our grandmothers? Do you remember those? Is it possible to compare with what is sold on every corner? And many simply don't know this taste. But sorry... I Advise you to bake a cake for my recipe. I bake it for at least twenty years. And my children don't want to eat any other cakes.

Ingredients

  • Flour

    1 kg

  • Yeast

  • Milk

    1.5 cup

  • Sugar

    250 g

  • Butter

    200 g

  • Raisins

    100 g

  • Cognac

    25 g

  • Orange

    2 piece

  • Cardamom

    1 tsp

  • Nutmeg

    0.5 tsp

  • Vanilla sugar

    3 tsp

  • Cinnamon

    1 tsp

  • Ginger

    1 tsp

  • Salt

    1 g

  • Yolk egg

    10 piece

  • Egg white

    3 piece

Cooking

step-0
Still need to prepare the candied orange peel. For this cleanable 2 orange peel steeped in cold water for 2 days, changing the water at least 2 times a day. Peel and cut into strips. Prepare a syrup of a quarter Cup of water and half a Cup of sugar with the addition of a small amount of lemon juice or acid. Our cook candied in syrup until completely absorbed. They are then dried. Slice into small cubes about the size of raisins.
step-1
Prepare the sourdough. To do this, boil 0.5 cups of milk, boil in it 100 grams of flour, carefully knead with a spatula until elastic state. Take 0.5 cups of warm milk (not cold and not hot!), dissolve in it the yeast packet, add 100 grams of flour, knead, leave for 10 minutes. Now combine the two mixtures and very well kneaded, to avoid lumps. You can involve the technique, because this process is quite complicated. Leave the dough to rise for 1 hour.
step-2
Now start pouring. Combine the egg yolks, sugar and salt will erase into a smooth paste and beat into a soft mousse white. Half fill pour in approaching the dough, add 250 grams of flour, knead well and again let it rise for an hour.
step-3
Pour the second half fill and half a Cup of warm milk, add 500 grams of flour and start kneading. In the process of kneading is adjustable by the amount of milk because the flour is different, the eggs too. The dough at this stage should be thick enough. Knead long and hard, until, until the dough becomes elastic and will not lag behind the walls of the cookware. Now, slowly begin to pour the melted butter while continuing to knead. When all the butter umasida in the dough, add spices and brandy. Again, allow dough to relax, and have some rest. It's like the tale where pop worker hired: we have you, say, nothing at all will have to do. With get up in the morning, the cattle will clean up in the house will bring order to us with mother Breakfast, and rest... and so on... So we have: do nothing but rest. Why do you not understand!
step-4
Well, we rested on the test, and now for work! The dough will again primam, add washed and obalanya in flour raisins, chopped candied fruit, carefully mesuem in the dough. Here it is ready, darling. Let a little rest, we will start to divide and lay out on the forms. Remember that the dough should take only half of the volume forms. Though still a little stand up, will rise to 2/3. Can the top of the dough to decorate with raisins and candied fruit, you can lubricate the egg yolk and put in preheated oven. This number of products designed for 2 rather large cake. Bake them on low heat for 45 minutes. If the tip is fried before, cover it with a sheet of paper. If the bottom is fried, put it on the bottom of the oven pan with water. The baking process is very important. Be careful.
step-5
Ready baked cake should be a beautiful Golden color and is quite light in weight. So cake can be easily removed from the mould, put the baked cake in the form of a wet towel. Then very carefully with a wooden spatula, separate the cake from the sides and gently shake it out of shape. If you form is not Teflon, it should be covered with an oiled parchment before baking.
step-6
Warm cake generously adorn a protein with icing and various toppings, marmalade, nuts, wafer flowers. The cake should be solemnly elegant, fragrant!
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