Today we had double quizzes and three presentations, egg,
gelatin and fruits, classes are almost finished and we have a lot to catch up
with the presentations, next week will be me.
I had so much fun today, first because I worked with a great
group, we started mise en place our ingredients, while
some were pealing and cutting the apples me and the ot took care of
the strudel dough, it was pretty easy to make the dough, we used the big mixer
with hook attachment, all ingredients in at once, bread flour, salt, water, oil
and eggs, let it beat for ten minutes on medium speed. It is very soft dough;
let it rest for one hour at room temperature in an oil covered sheet pan, before
cover with plastic brush some oil on top of the dough to no stick on the
plastic wrap.
While we were waiting for the dough we started working in
the fillings, apple filling and cheese with dried cherries. Everything was
pretty easy to make basically mix all ingredients together.
The best part of the day started when the dough was ready to
be used, the amount of the dough wasn’t much but even though we divided it into
4 parts and we did four strudels 2 of cheese and 2 apples. It was
amazing experience to work with this dough a little challenge but I love
challenge J
our group was the first to open the dough with chef’s help, each one of
us was holding on side of the dough and with both hands with the palm down we
started stretching the dough from the middle out very careful to not make a
hole, suddenly we had a huge stretched and thin dough on the table that was
covered with a towel that would help us roll the dough with the filling in,
once it is open we add a layer of clarified butter with a brush little of
crumbs on all superficies of the dough then add a thick line of filling at one
side, it was a little trick to roll the strudel after each time we rolled it we
brush some clarified butter in between this helps to keep the layers, separated
and give more texture when baked.
Other groups had worked in different recipes and at the end
we all brought home a box full of delicious desserts that we all had made.
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