Lesson 4
I made danish pastries today. It includes crossiants, savoury and sweet danish. Danish pastry's main ingredients are plain flour and butter. It is rolled and folded a couple of times to create the layer effect. Due to our humit climate in Singapore, the teacher asked me to use solid vegetable butter as it does not melt easily as compared to butter when the pastry is being rolled out. So, for the best tasting danish, either turn on the aircon (if you are so fortunate to have one in your kitchen) and use butter to bake. Well, the danish turns out nice using vegetable better but I feel it can be better using butter made from cow's milk. Nothing beats the real thing!
Baking danish pastry is a real fun! I did not expect that it can cut out to so many different variaties. The only troublesome thing is you have to carefully and neatly placed the unused cut out portions together(which can be quite alot depending on how you cut out the designs and what shape you want), slightly overlapping each other and roll them out again for other designs. Another thing to take note during rolling out the layered pastry is not to pressed down too hard as it will inhibit the expansion of the layers during baking, which results in harder danish.
Next, I bake custard bread and garlic bread. Making the garlic butter at home is really easy. Simply mix finely chopped garlic, fresh herbs like pasley and oregano and butter together. Add some salt if you prefer and you can spread it onto any baguettes or plain soft bread.
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