TOP-4 recipes with photos of making Gorodets gingerbread at home. Subtleties and secrets of cooking. Video recipes.
Gorodets gingerbread is a regional variety of Russian printed gingerbread, which was baked in the city of Gorodets and its environs. This pastry has been known since the second half of the 18th century. It was prepared in various sizes, and, moreover, very impressive. Gorodets was also the center of wood carving, where "gingerbread boards" were made for baking gingerbread. The production of Gorodets gingerbread flourished before the Revolution, after which it began to fade, but now it has revived again. We will find out his most popular TOP-4 recipes, secrets and subtleties of cooking.
Secrets and subtleties of cooking
- The size of Gorodets gingerbread can be small, medium, large and very large.
- Gingerbread dough can be simple and custard. Choux pastry products are tastier and stay stale longer.
- To make the gingerbread cookies a beautiful color, add burnt sugar, dissolved in the form of a thick syrup, to the dough.
- For the filling, chopped raisins are most often used with a meat grinder, mixed with jam.
- Apple jam is mainly used, but there are products with different fillings, and even with lemon jam.
- The technology for making gingerbread is simple: a layer of dough, a layer of filling, a layer of dough.
- The finished dough for Gorodets gingerbread is rolled out with a greased rolling pin.
- For the production of a gingerbread, a wooden form (board-stamp) is required, with which an image is squeezed out on it.
- In the absence of such a shape, you can draw a pattern with a knife or using improvised tools.
- To form printed gingerbread, the gingerbread board is well greased with sunflower oil, in several stages until it is completely saturated and left to dry for 2-3 days.
- The finished baked gingerbread should sit for a certain time and reach a certain temperature, after which they are spread with syrup, which gives shine.
- The modern Gorodets gingerbread, unlike the Tula one, is glazed not only from above, but also from below.
- The baking time of the products depends on the size of the gingerbread. For small products, 5-7 minutes is enough, for medium ones - 10-12 minutes, for 150 grams - 15 minutes.
Gorodets honey-sugar gingerbread with spices
The recipe spice mix can be purchased specifically for baking, or you can make your own from any spices, such as cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, cloves, allspice, nutmeg. Then finely grind all the spices in a mill.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 429 kcal.
- Servings - 20
- Cooking time - 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 750 g
- Butter - 50 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Honey - 125 g
- Sugar - 200 g
- Spice mixture - 1/2 tsp
- Soda - 1/2 tsp
- Water - 1/4 tbsp.
Cooking honey-sugar Gorodets gingerbread with spices:
- In a water bath, melt the honey, sugar and butter.
- Mix flour with spices and baking soda, and sift through a fine sieve.
- Pour the hot honey-oil mass into the dry flour mixture and mix thoroughly. Leave to cool to retain a slight warmth.
- Beat eggs into the dough, pour in water and knead a soft, not too sticky dough.
- Grease a gingerbread board with sunflower oil. Sprinkle the work surface with flour and lay out a piece of dough.
- Roll the dough with a rolling pin and fill the mold with a board. Remove excess dough around the edges.
- Transfer the workpiece to a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in a preheated oven to 200-220 ° C for 10-12 minutes. If the gingerbread is large, increase the baking time. But you cannot overexpose the gingerbread cookies in the oven, otherwise they will become "stone".
- Cool the finished gingerbread on a wire rack.
- To make the gingerbread shine, after baking, wipe them with a napkin and brush with hot syrup. For its preparation in 1/2 tbsp.dissolve 1 tbsp of water. sugar and boil until "stretching thread". Then, using a brush, quickly brush the surface of the gingerbread with hot syrup and leave to set.
Gorodets honey gingerbread with walnuts
Walnuts will add additional aroma and taste to Gorodets gingerbread. And besides that, they are very useful, because in addition to nuts, the dough contains healing honey.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Soda - 1/4 tsp
- Honey - 1/2 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1/4 tbsp.
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Butter - 1/2 tablespoon
- Spices - 1/2 tsp
- Walnuts - 1/4 tbsp
Cooking Gorodets honey cakes with walnuts:
- Melt honey and sugar in a bowl and cool.
- Then add the sifted flour, stir well and leave to cool to room temperature.
- Whisk the egg and stir into the dough with melted hot butter.
- Add spices and finely chopped nuts.
- Dissolve soda in 1/2 tsp. water and stir into the dough.
- Knead out a soft, elastic dough and shape the gingerbread cookies into a comfortable shape, which you can use to make prints with a board.
- Send the gingerbread cookies to bake in a preheated oven up to 200 ° C for 10-15 minutes.
- After cooling the Gorodets honey gingerbread with walnuts, cover them with sugar glaze if desired.
Gorodets almond gingerbread
Gorodets almond gingerbread - noble gingerbread with almond aroma and taste. The confectionery product is hearty, rich in nuts, tasty and aromatic.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1/2 tbsp.
- Almond flour - 1/4 cup
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 1/2 tbsp., 1 tbsp.
- Lemon zest - 1/2 tsp
- Soda - 1/8 tsp
Cooking Gorodets almond gingerbread:
- Combine the egg with sugar and beat with a mixer.
- Sprinkle in the sifted flour with baking soda, almond flour, and lemon zest.
- Knead a not very thick dough, roll it out and form flat gingerbread.
- Place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Apply a pattern to the product with a special plate stamp and send the baking sheet to bake in a preheated oven to 200 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Cool the Gorodets almond gingerbread on a wire rack and cover with icing or syrup.
Gorodets gingerbread with jam
At home, it is not difficult to cook Gorodets gingerbread with jam. The main thing is that there is a special plate, which will give a convex pattern on the gingerbread. You can take any jam, the main thing is that it is not liquid, but moderately thick.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 350 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Butter - 100 g
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tablespoon
- Honey - 5 tablespoons
- Apple jam - for filling
Cooking Gorodets gingerbread with jam:
- For the dough, combine sugar, eggs, butter, baking soda, cinnamon and honey.
- Mix everything and place in a water bath. Cook for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until smooth.
- Remove the container from the heat, add flour and knead a not very tough elastic dough.
- Roll out two cakes of the same shape from the finished dough.
- Put the first cake on a baking sheet and brush with a layer of 0.5-0.7 mm, not liquid jam. Cover the filling with the second crust on top.
- Give the gingerbread a bulge, cut out figures and strips on it, apply a dot pattern to the dough using a colander, etc.
- Send the gingerbread to bake in a preheated oven at 170 ° C for about 15-20 minutes.
- In the meantime, prepare the frosting. To do this, boil 4 tablespoons. sugar with 2 tablespoons water, and grease hot Gorodets gingerbread with jam. Leave it on the wire rack to cool and harden.
