Jam Pie - general principles and methods of cooking
This sweet delicacy, like jam, is loved by both adults and children. Therefore, jam pies are very popular. The hostesses love them for their ease of preparation, the ability to cook from products that are always available in every kitchen, for a consistently good result and excellent taste. And also - for the opportunity to find a worthy use of jam, which was so diligently prepared, but for some reason, it stagnated on a shelf in the pantry.
As a filling for the cake, you can use any jam, however, most often use a sweet product made from cherries, currants, apples, plums, strawberries, strawberries, blueberries, lingonberries, cranberries.
Jam Pie - Food Preparation
For the cake with jam, suitable seedless jam, well cooked, with thick syrup. Another important component of this dish is flour. It should definitely sift several times, then the cake will be softer and more tender.
Other common components of jam pies are sugar, margarine or butter, eggs, and sometimes milk. Margarine and butter are usually used to make dough in a softened or melted form, according to the recipe.
Jam Pie - Best Recipes
Recipe 1: Crumbly Plum Cake
This recipe for a crumbly shortcrust pastry can be called a classic. Plum jam gives it a very interesting sweet sourness, so it will appeal even to those who are not a big fan of sweets.
Ingredients:
700 gr. flour;
3 eggs;
250 gr. margarine;
2/3 cup of sugar;
soda, hydrated with vinegar;
a pinch of salt;
For filling:
0.5 liters of thick plum jam.
Cooking Method:
1. After separating the yolks from the proteins, beat them with a mixer, adding sugar in portions until they turn white. Then we melt the margarine and mix it with whipped yolks, salt and soda, quenched with vinegar, once again mix the resulting mass well.
2. Portions add flour to the mixture, knead the dough well, separate the fourth part from it and place in the freezer. 3. Divide the remaining dough in half. Smear the form with vegetable oil, sprinkle it with flour and place one half of the dough there. Having leveled his hands, we make small bumpers.
4. The second half of the dough is not thin roll out with a rolling pin.
5. We put on the dough in the form of half the filling and cover it with a rolled layer of dough, again making small bumpers. Put the second part of the jam on top.
6. We take out the dough from the freezer and use a coarse grater to rub it directly on the jam, thus obtaining the last layer of the cake.
7. Bake the cake for 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
Recipe 2: Yeast Dough Pie with Jam
Another classic of the genre is a pie with jam from yeast dough. It turns out not only delicious, but still very beautiful, so it can make up the pride of any hostess and become her signature dish.
Ingredients:
50 gr. fresh yeast;
500 gr. milk;
7 glasses of flour;
5 eggs;
1 pack of cream margarine;
200 gr. Sahara;
salt;
For filling:
0.5 l of any thick jam
Cooking method:
1. Melt margarine in a water bath. We dissolve the yeast in half a glass of warm whey or milk.
2. Beat the eggs in a blender with sugar into a thick white foam, add to them margarine and whey with yeast.
3. Pour the sifted flour into the resulting mixture, knead the dough with the thickness of sour cream and, putting it in the heat, let it come.
4. When our dough is suitable, we crush it and divide it into 3 parts, of which two more should be equal in size and the third less. One piece of dough from those that are bigger, we roll out not thinly and we grease with jam. The second one is also rolled, but thinner, we cover it with a layer of jam and pinch the edges.
5. From a smaller piece of dough we make decorations in any form (Christmas trees, flowers, etc.) and decorate the top of the cake with them. Leave for half an hour for proofing.
6. Lubricate the cake with yolk and bake at 180 degrees until it turns red.
Recipe 3: Whip-Cake
This variant of the jam pie is different from other recipes in that this sweet product is not involved in it as a filling, but as a component of the dough. Its advantage is the possibility of making haste, for example, when guests unexpectedly came to you. Ingredients:
1 egg;
300 gr. flour;
half a cup of sugar;
half a cup of coffee or tea;
200 gr. preserves;
1 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
soda (1 tsp.).
Cooking Method:
1. After breaking an egg into a bowl, add soda, sugar, jam there (the most delicious is a pie with black currant or blueberry jam), mix everything thoroughly.
2. There we also add vegetable oil and liquid in the form of tea or coffee (coffee drink). Important point: the prepared drink should be cooled beforehand so that the eggs do not coagulate.
3. After adding flour to the mixture, mix everything thoroughly (for best results, you can use a mixer).
4. Smear a baking dish with butter, cover it with parchment and pour out the dough, bake the cake in the oven at 180 degrees.
Jam Pie - tips from experienced chefs
Especially delicious are jams with jams if spices are added to them. For example, apple pie is very good with cinnamon.
To make sure that the closed cake with jam is ready, you need to pierce it with a match. In case the dough does not stick to it, you can turn off the oven and get the cake.
Jam pies should be filled with filling and finalized directly on the pan, greased with butter. The baking tray must be cold.
The finished, closed cakes with yeast dough jam should be allowed to rise a little on the sheet for about 20 minutes and then, after smearing them with yolk, put into the oven again for 3-5 minutes, then they will get a beautiful shine.
If you are preparing a cake, the recipe of which is based on using jam not as a filling, but as a component of the dough, then it can be easily turned into a cake by cutting it lengthwise into several pieces and sandwiching it with suitable cream.
