Plum Puff Pastry Tart

 

My friend always brings my cake to visit one of her friend. She likes to eat sweet things. She plants a plum tree in her garden. And she knows I like cooking and baking. So, she asks my friend to pick up some plums and use it to bake. I never use plum to bake. HAHA… So, is it my challenge?

I still leave some puff pastry in the freezer. Why not just use it to bake some 30 minutes puff pastry tart. Simple and easy. Puff pastry is very good for every kind of food. Do this first. After I study more on how to use plum to bake a dessert, then I will share it to everyone.

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/390F, Baking Time: 18~20 minutes

Recipe: 6 ea

 

 

Steps

(1) Core all the plums and cut it into chunks. Put them and sugar into the pan. Boil it and then keep cooking it with medium heat. Around 5 minutes

(2) Pour through a sieve. Set aside.

(3) Get 6 pieces puff pastry. Roll it into an oval shape. Place them on the greased baking tray. Prick the dough all over with a fork

(4) Place few pieces of plum on the pastry
(5) Brush the whipped egg at the edge. Send them into the pre-heat oven at 200C/390F around 18~20 minutes until the edge turns into golden.

Puff Pastry Bread

 

Again, puff pastry is very useful to bake either for main course or dessert. In Taiwan, we use puff pastry with bread. I think it is quite a new thing for other countries. I have traveled to US and some western countries lots of time. But, I never saw this kind of bread there. Even though I lived in the UK over a year, I didn’t find out this kind of bread in the UK. Of course, I should write it to my blog and show people another new way to use puff pastry.

I like to eat in warm. Because the pastry is so crispy and the bread is so soft. A very different taste of bread. Try this one if you are looking some new things. Enjoy it.

 

 

 

 

Oven Temperature Setting: 200C/390F; Baking Time: 15~20 minutes

Recipe: 8 ea

 Hot Batter Link; Puff Pastry Link

Steps of Bread:

(1) Weight all ingredients well before starting our brilliant work

(2) Place Strong Flour, Plain Flour, Granulated Sugar and Salt into a big bowl. And then, stir a while.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Every time I bake the bread, I will mix dry ingredients firstly. Salt will kill yeast if it touches to yeast directly )
(3) Add yeast into the mixture. Mix it.

(4) Then, add Hot Batter and 100ml milk into the bowl as well. Stir and mix into well until there is no flour.

(5) Move the dough ball into a lightly floured work space. And put butter on the dough. Then, start to knead it. 
(6) Add 30ml milk several times when you knead the dough into a smooth and elastic dough ball.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Adding milk into dough several times can make sure that the dough totally absorb the milk. I tried to add once at the beginning when I started to bake. It was okay, but the dough ball was very dried. )

(7) When the dough ball has a smooth surface, adding dried blueberry fruit into the dough. Knead it again. Then, moving it back to the lightly greased bowl. And brush some watch or milk on the surface of the dough ball. Wait around 1~2 hours until it doubles the size.

 

Steps of Assembly

(1) Squeeze the air out of the dough. Divide it into 8 pcs.
(2) Roll all 8 dough into 8 balls. Place it on the greased baking tray. Brush water on the balls.

(3) Get 8 pcs puff pastry. Cover puff pastry on the dough ball. Brush water on the top of pastry. Wait around 40 minutes to double the size again.

(4) When the dough doubles the size, brush whipped egg on the pastry. Send it into a 200C/390F pre-heated oven for around 15~20 minute. It is ready when the surface turns golden.

Puff Pastry

 

Puff Pastry is a very common and useful thing for cooking and baking. With it, there will be lots of new things for your food every day. You can use it on soups, starters, main courses, breads, or desserts. So, there are lots of food manufacturer sold frozen puff pastry at shops in the UK. I heard from my friend. It is same in the European countries. BUT… In Taiwan, baking is not so popular. The oven is the must-be thing in the kitchen. So, learning how to do puff pastry is very important. For me, I like to do more and freeze some puff pastry in the freezer. Then, I can unfreeze in the fridge one day before using it.

 

Recipe: around 600g

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: There is no need to put butter at room temperature.)

 

Steps:

(1) Weight all ingredients
(2) Place flour, sugar and salt in a big bowl. Mix it
(3) Add the water into the bowl. Mix it well into a dough ball

(4) Place 25g butter on the top of dough. Well-incorporated the butter and dough into a ball. Cover it with a lid or cling film. Put it in the fridge and wait for 30 minutes.

(5) Place the dough on a table covered with flour

(6) Roll the dough into a big flat, around 30cm by 40cm. Place 200g butter in the middle of the place.
(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: Leave around 2 cm at the top and bottom of the edge. Then, butter will not be split at rolling later.)

(7) Fold one third into the middle. And then, fold another one third on top. Then, it will turn into a long strip. Roll the dough up and down gently.
 

(8) Fold one third into the middle from the top. And the fold another one third into the middle from the bottom. Then, wrap with a kitchen film. Put in the freezer. Wait for 30 minutes.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: It will be easier to handle the dough.)
(9) Roll into a large plate. Then repeat (7) and (8) at least 3 more time.