The name of the high cake made of soft porous test is intriguing why it is called "Baba"? Baba cooking - a masterpiece of Slavic cuisine, which has become the prototype of the French Savarin. Women, there are many recipes, but today they are united by the fact that luxuriant soft dough necessarily impregnated with syrup, which are usually added aromatic alcohol.

Unusual cake

Baba is considered the inventor of the Polish king Stanislaw Leszczynski. A great lover of sweet pastries, he invented the first dip pieces of rich German cakes, fashionable at the time, in the wine. Baking it becomes juicy and fragrant, buy a new unusual taste. The monarch named a new dish called his favorite literary hero - Ali Baba (with the accent on the last syllable), and the name stuck. Over time, they perfected the recipe, the dough began to add the raisins.

Used to impregnate women with the addition of flavored syrup, rum was the first French pastry Brihaye-Savarin, who lived in the XVIII century. He gave his name to the new dessert, and to this day in France, Germany and some other European countries rum soaked cake called Savarenom. However, the name "baba" is no less popular, and in the Slavic countries, it has been and remains a major.

So who can be regarded as the inventor of this succulent dessert - Polish King or French pastry? Oddly, neither the one nor the other. Baba - the ancient Slavic cuisine dish. High muffins porous text has long been baked in the Western part of Russia, in Western Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. Initially, women were used for baking pots, so the product obtained characteristic shape. Over time, there were also special forms for baking women - tall, ribbed edges and a hole in the middle. However, women are often small baked in molds without the hole, and not necessarily ribbed edge.

As with any truly national dishes for baking women can use a variety of recipes. For this reason, to identify the characteristics of this species baking easy. Today, the women called high cupcakes porous dough Yeast dough Which after baking impregnated syrup. The most popular and common women - rum.

Intoxicating temptation

It is interesting that Baba in different countries prepare very differently. For example, in Russia baba - a small cake with raisins soaked in sweet syrup with a little rum essence and covered with icing. Such women are happy to eat even children.

Quite different look Baba in the interpretation of the French and Italian pastry. In many Western European confectionery women doing quite small, and not just dip them in sweet vodichku and generously poured a real rum and a little sugar syrup. Of course, children do not have a dessert offer - from the well-soaked women hmeleyut even adults.

Traditional Savarin today is somewhat different from Baba. It is a cone-shaped cake, often in the middle with a hole. After baking Savarin impregnated with syrup, red wine or rum with spices, covered with a layer of apricot jam and whipped cream fluffy cap. Sometimes Savarin make stuffed with butter or cream of English. In France, this mouthwatering masterpiece is served with fresh fruit, which perfectly complement the exquisite taste of dessert.

Secrets baba

Prepare delicious Baba is not as difficult as it may seem. But like any other pastries, baba has its secrets:

• Initially, to prepare Baba used a special test for Brioches (French pastries). Today, you can use any yeast pastry. Most importantly, it was a light, semi-liquid, slightly thicker than pancake batter on;
• To pastries turned out air and gentle, with the dough must be handled delicately. Forms with future the women can not shake. It is unacceptable dramatically slam the oven door. Anyway, it is advisable not to make any sudden movements, by which the tender may fall in the dough;
• If dessert is meant for adults, the raisins for the test should be pre-soaked in rum and then roll in flour;
• Finished a woman is impregnated with sugar syrup with the addition of rum. In an extreme case, you can take another aromatic alcohol. After that a woman should be sprinkled with powdered sugar, cover with a thick layer of icing sugar or lipstick.

Baba and grandmother

Impregnated alcoholic syrup delicious rum baba - is not the only member of the family culinary women. There vanilla, almonds, poppy, nut, lemon women. Using different flavors, you can get a variety of tastes, the main thing that was soft baked and had a characteristic shape. All women impregnated with syrup with alcohol or without it.

Have women and more distant "relatives" - grandmother. The name is similar, but are different: for the manufacture of attendants do not use yeast dough as baking powder or baking soda is commonly used baking powder. Often, the grandmother is a kind of cottage cheese casseroles, vegetable or fruit puree, even bread. In contrast, women cooking, grandmas are not always high, their shape can be almost any. Taste also varies: grandmas are not always sweet. For example, invented in Belarus potato grandmother - a delicious and satisfying lunch dish in this kind of potato gratin Potato gratin: simplicity and sophistication in one dish   often add onions, garlic and herbs.

The famous apple grandmother - a kind of Charlotte Charlotte: Russian apple pie recipe , Casseroles of stale bread with apples. The basis for the carrot is a carrot puree grandmother. As a rule, all grandmas are served to the table with the heat - with the heat: in the cooled or heated as they are not as tasty as fresh.

Maria Bykov

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