How I Roll Out Perfect Pie Dough Every Time
Whenever I feel a new season, I think myself: “It’s the pies season!” Summer? Yes. Winter? Yes. Spring? Let’s have a pie! Now that summer is going strong, we will start to see many strawberries, blueberries, apricots and cherries adorn our grocery shelves and our farm markets. All these superb offers can benefit from a laminated and buttered crust – which is often the only thing that prevents us from our objectives.
Perhaps you already have your favorite recipe for stored pie dough, but it is when we manage to deploy the crust that we encounter a multitude of problems – it continues to push, the dough is breaking, the middle is completely glued to the counter, it is again thin on one side of the pie of the pie in the pie). But if you perform some of these strategies, you will establish a successful crust deployment.
Let him rest – but not too long
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Many crust recipes ask you to conclude your freshly mixed pie dough and put it in the refrigerator for 45 minutes at hours. This is a great idea if you do your pie dough in advance and need a place to keep it for a few days, but if you do a pie on the same day, abandon the cold for long periods. The temperature of the refrigerator solidifies the fat and makes the crust mix more likely to crack and break if it becomes too cold. This could be important for the loose dough in summer or you have a hot kitchen, but 20 to 30 minutes will probably be enough time to firm the dough. Keep in mind that the other important to remember from all this threshing rest time.
Your objective is to take this disc of butter and flour two by four inches and to convince the gluten to voluntarily extend to three times its original area. Gluten needs rest. Without that, it becomes grumpy and will continue to retreat despite your best movements. Once you have mixed your dough, wrap it and let it sit on the counter or refrigerator for 20-30 minutes. Then roll. The dough will be less likely to crack or collapse, and gluten should be sufficiently relaxed.
Flour the dough, and the counter, and the spindle
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And your hands. What do you know? Collect it again for good luck. Dusting an adequate quantity of flour is the only movement that will facilitate each step. It is certainly better to use too much flour than too little. Many of us have experienced a perfect circle of dough, only to lift the edge and find that the whole center has merged the cells with the counter. A substantial dusting of flour under your pastry will guarantee that there is no chance of sticking.
The same goes for the top: flour the surface of the crust and your spit to create a barrier while you ride. At each turn of the spindle, the outer surface is pushed and a little more from the interior of butter is exposed. These pieces will meet more flour or find an area to stick to. It is likely that you will have to apply additional flour two or three times on the top And At the bottom of the pie crust before reaching the desired diameter and thickness. Don’t be shy; It is almost impossible to flour too much. Just keep a dough brush at hand in order to dust the excess before transferring the dough to the pie plate.
Take place thick parts
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If you are faced with a mound of pie dough for the first time, it is a natural response to start flattening the edges. After all, they are the most malleable and exposed. Resist! The deployment of the thinnest parts (edges) will almost surely cause ultra-thin areas or molten and sticky butter edges. Instead, roll thick parts outwards. At first, it will always be the center. Consider it as a delicious tart paste tank to shoot. When you move from the center, try not to drive on the edge of the dough. Just stop at the end and go back to the center to move in a different direction. If you crush the edges, you will notice that your dough becomes extremely thin in these areas and start staying.
What do you think so far?
Once your dough is around 90% and the center is no longer the thickest point, you can look for thick spots and make a little precision for everything.
Turn your dough
Sometimes you don’t know you do additional work until someone asks you why you do it. I will be her. Why do you turn around your body when you unroll the pie dough instead of twisting the dough? My theory is that, until the confidence of the pie crust is won, we are all a little afraid of pastry – grueling to tear it, to rinse it, to ruin it. Instead of manipulating the crust with conviction and risking a tear, we just prefer to get around it. The hard truth is that the less you order the dough, the more You probably have to tear it. So let’s trust your pie crust.
Roll the dough by placing the rolling pin in the center and pushing forward, far from your body. Place your pin, take the dough disc with both hands and give it a quarter turn. Now, a thick part is in front of you and you propagate yourself transparently a little more flour below. Pick up your pin, roll from the center and turn the dough again by a quarter. Repeat, by adjusting turns to accommodate thick stains of paste. In addition to facilitating the rolling action on your spine, the uprising and transformation of the dough allows you to regularly check all the sticky areas, gives you the possibility of adding additional flour below and allows you to feel the dough for an unequal thickness.
The next time you walk in the product section of your grocery store, allow yourself to be inspired by juicy berries and fruits – do not hesitate to buy a few pints and show your great energy of pie dough.
