The famous Tula gingerbread cookies have come down to our days from the depth of centuries. In order to better buy, they tried to make them not only tasty, but also attractive, painting with various drawings. But initially, these sweets baked smooth, and only with time began to apply patterns. We offer several recipes and recommendations for making gingerbread with your own hands.

Tula gingerbread cookies - a traditional recipe

The recipe for Tula gingerbread at home is quite simple:

  • 2 eggs;
  • honey 100 g;
  • flour 3 cups;
  • oil drain. 4 tablespoons .;
  • food soda (on the tip of a knife).

For filling:

  • sugar 1 table. a spoon;
  • apple jam 200 g

For glaze:

  • powdered sugar 1 cup;
  • water 4 tablespoons (table.).

Cooking homemade Tula gingerbread cookies:

  1. Butter is softened, but not melted. Mix with honey and a pair of eggs. Products are mixed. Hold the candied honey in a water bath to warm up. Honey is added to the dough when it has room temperature.
  2. Sift the flour, add to the listed products, add a little baking soda and knead the dough. If the dough is very steep, pour in a little water.
  3. For the filling, the jam should have a thick consistency. With insufficient density, it needs to be boiled.
  4. Roll out the dough so that it has a thickness of 5 - 6 millimeters. It is necessary to make two flat cakes of round or rectangular shape. A filling is placed on one piece of rolled dough, and a second piece of dough is placed on top. Connect the edges so that the filling does not leak. The blank should be placed in a special stencil form, and then on the baking sheet.
  5. At maximum temperature, keep in the oven for one and a half minutes. Then it is necessary to cool. After that, they are sent back to the oven for 5 minutes.The temperature should be high.
  6. While the items are sitting in the oven, you can cook the icing. Pour powdered sugar into a saucepan with heated water. Keep on low heat and stir. Brush the finished gingerbread with sugar icing.

It is interesting. In the old days, there was no pure sugar, and when it appeared, it was too expensive. Therefore, instead of sugar, molasses, honey, local berries and fruits were used.

How to cook gingerbread according to GOST?

According to GOST, the Tula gingerbread must have a rectangular shape. For the filling, thick jam (apple, plum) or jam (raspberry, blackcurrant) should be used. The surface of the gingerbread is decorated with a relief pattern, covered with glaze. Gingerbread cookies, which are made according to GOST, do not stale for a long time, soft, do not crumble. Natural products are used, without any chemical preservatives.

The correct recipe is the following combination of products:

  • 370 g of sugar;
  • 100 g of water;
  • 480 g flour;
  • 2 g of soda;
  • 2 g of baking powder;
  • 1 g of citric acid;
  • 50 g of plums. oils;
  • 1 egg
  • 4 g of a mixture of spices (you can use a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, black pepper - to taste).
  • use icing for decoration.

Gingerbread according to GOST can be as follows:

  1. Melt the sugar on the stove. When it darkens, pour in the water brought to a boil in advance.
  2. Mix the prepared spices separately. Pour them into the sugar mass, warm again on the fire, but not to a boil.
  3. Sift half the flour into the spiced sugar mass.
  4. Melt the butter and put it into the flour with spices. Add an egg. Stir well together. Add the remaining products, mix, knead the dough, gradually adding the remaining flour.
  5. Bake gingerbread cookies with dough at 220 degrees. for 15 minutes.
  6. Cool finished products and cover with glaze.

Cooking a treat with boiled condensed milk

Boiled condensed milk is a wonderful filling.

To prepare a sweet treat you will need the following set of products:

  • sugar ½ cup;
  • 2 eggs;
  • ½ cans of boiled condensed milk;
  • some cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger;
  • honey 3 table. spoons;
  • butter 100 g;
  • soda 1 spoon (tea);
  • flour 3 cups.

Oil, sugar and honey must be heated together and mixed. Be sure to let it cool. Pour a little flour, break the eggs, put spices, mix. Pour the remaining flour. Knead a thick but elastic dough. The dough should rest a couple of hours. At this time, the oven warms up.
The dough is divided into two parts, each part is rolled. Filling (condensed milk) is placed on one layer, covered with another layer, the edges are connected. Bake for 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Home-made recipe

A set of products will be required:

  • jam for filling to taste;
  • 100 g butter;
  • wheat flour - 3 cups;
  • honey - 2 tables. l .;
  • milk - ½ cup;
  • nutmeg - 0.5 tablespoons (teaspoon);
  • sugar - 1 cup;
  • cinnamon - 0.5 tablespoons (teaspoonful);
  • soda - 1 spoon (small);
  • egg 1 pc.

Proteins with yolks split. Protein and sugar mix. Pour milk here, put honey, which must be preheated to a liquid state, if candied is used. Add softened butter, yolks.

Then pour spices, soda, flour into the resulting mass. Knead the dough manually. Divide it in half, roll it out. Give the cake the desired shape. Put jam on one layer and close it on the other. Glue the edges. Put a pattern on top with a fork. Put to bake for 30 minutes.

Tip. Conveniently and quickly heat honey in the microwave.

Dessert decoration at home

At home, you can make a gingerbread pattern with a fork. Another option is to make figures from the dough using forms for homemade cookies or cut them with a knife and stick on top. Each chef will be prompted by imagination and creativity.

The calorie content of the Tula gingerbread

 

Please note that this is a sweet product containing fat. Therefore, the calorie content of the gingerbread is quite high. 100 g contains approximately 360 calories. Do not eat it in large quantities. This delicacy is eaten little by little.To limit the use of gingerbread should people prone to overweight.

Cooking recommendations for cooking

The gingerbread dough is thick, but it should be elastic.
Honey is used in liquid.

If it crystallizes, then the water bath method is used to heat it:

  1. The pan is set on fire, the water in the pan should boil.
  2. A mug of honey is placed inside the pan, covered with a lid on top.

Ready gingerbread can be sprinkled with powder. If you cut the stencil out of paper and pour the powder through it, you get a beautiful decoration. The pattern can also be printed with a plate with a relief pattern before baking the gingerbread itself, directly on the test. You can decorate the surface with strips of dough passed through a meat grinder.

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