Bread makers: function "Russian cook"

And why did they come up with the idea to produce bread makers not in Russia, with its inexhaustible fields of rye and wheat, but in Germany, England, Japan, Korea? However, it cannot be said that the oven is loved only in Russia. In Germany, the homeland of the bread machine, there are also long-standing baking traditions. A French baguette and croissants? What about Italian pizza? Each country has its own culinary preferences, which are taken into account by manufacturers of household appliances. What can the creators of mini-bakeries offer Russian housewives?

Russian cuisine has always been famous for pastries

Most of the models sold in Russia "know" our language - they have a Russified menu. And in the collections of recipes attached to the bread makers, at least ten primordially Russian dishes are necessarily taken into account.

Let's start with a dish that evokes a strong association with Russia - dumplings. The first bread makers that appeared in our country did not know how to make dumplings. But the inventive housewives outwitted foreign technology and adapted the "pizza" mode for kneading, which is available in all mini-bakeries with the function of kneading dough. Still, these two types of dough are too different from each other to knead them in the same program. Dumplings - lean, without oil, made from flour, eggs and water. Pizza dough is kneaded without eggs, in milk with the addition of olive oil for elasticity ...

Taking this into account, now manufacturers, in addition to the "pizza" mode, also add "dumplings". For example, to knead dumplings in a Panasonic SD-255 oven, you need to load 450 grams of flour, salt, an egg and 210 ml into the machine. water, press "start" and in just 20 minutes get an elastic ball of dough, which is enough for 70 - 80 dumplings.

The Panasonic SD-255 bread maker is equipped with the function of kneading dumplings

In addition to dumplings, Russian cuisine has always been famous for pastries made from yeast dough: pies, pies, pies, cheesecakes, and, of course, dozens of varieties of bread - from black rye to white wheat. Yeast dough can be more or less rich. In the first, more muffins are put - butter, sugar, eggs. It is used for baking puffed cheesecakes and buns. The second is suitable for regular bread. In any case, manually kneading it is not an easy task. The bread maker will help here too - it will cope with the yeast dough in a maximum of 2 hours. But even here, one must remember that yeast is a capricious thing. Pour and pour the ingredients in strict sequence, as written in the recipe. The yeast should not get wet ahead of time, otherwise the dough will not be fluffy enough.

In a bread maker, ordinary yeast dough for cheesecakes "fits" in a maximum of 2 hours

So the dough is ready, now what? The first option is to get it out, roll it out and bake pies or buns in the oven. Unfortunately, a bread maker cannot cook such a trifle - its shape is intended only for loaves from 450 to 1300 grams. But even on that car, you can say thank you - because she did most of the work for you. And the second option is to bake directly in the bread maker. It is not at all necessary to first knead the dough, then set the baking mode. You can set a program that includes both steps. Then you just need to fill in the finished ingredients and after a few hours get the finished loaf. In the bread maker, you can bake Russian, Darnitsky, Borodino bread (in Moulinex OW 5002 it is even included in a special program), as well as bread with all kinds of additives - mushrooms, vegetables, nuts, raisins, caraway seeds, onions. Manufacturers, knowing our traditions, taught mini-bakeries to bake even Easter cakes.

For example, to bake a cake in a Panasonic SD-253, you need yeast, wheat flour, egg yolks, sugar, margarine, milk, candied fruits, almonds and raisins.The softened margarine and the yolks pounded with sugar are placed in a bucket of a bread machine. Nuts and candied fruits are placed in a special dispenser, from where they are automatically poured into the dough at the very end of the batch. Then they select the "whole flour" program, set the "baking with raisins" mode and the bread maker bakes a cake called "Monastyrsky" for 5 hours. But if for all the models mentioned above, recipes for Russian cuisine are presented in the form of two or three programs, then LG Electronics went further in terms of winning the sympathies of the Russian consumer. In the models of this brand (HB-205CJ,) there is a program "Russian cook", which provides several traditional recipes for Russian bread. So, for LG HB-156JE it includes honey-mustard, pumpkin, sour cream, rye bread and kulich.

The "Russian chef" function in the LG HB-156JE bread maker includes several recipes for Russian bread

So, a foreign invention - a mini-bakery - was to the liking of Russian housewives. Now it can easily replace the good old Russian oven, without which our national dishes were once inconceivable.

Alexandra Timkina,