Many of us often do a test more than they needed, and eventually get lost, not knowing how to proceed with it: you do not want to throw it away, but you do not need to use it anymore. How to get out of this situation, those housewives who know how to store the test know.
The easiest and most reliable way to keep the dough is to freeze it. As you know, the dough is different, it differs in its composition and purpose. At the heart of any test is water or milk. It is thanks to the liquid that the dough can be frozen, stored, and after defrosting again used for its intended purpose. Sometimes this benefits his taste. The main difference in storing the dough in the cold is the temperature and shelf life.
Storage of yeast dough
If you store it in the refrigerator, it does not take too long - before the fermentation process results in a sour dough. And if it is stored in the freezer, it will be stored for several weeks. Defrost the dough with yeast in warmth. First he needs to be thawed and then raised again. After the dough rises, it does not need to be pummeled, but immediately proceed with cutting.
To make the yeast dough more convenient, it is best to cut it first into portions and only then to freeze it.
How to store a yeastless dough
This type refers to any dough based on no yeast: biscuit, sand, flaky and chopped.
The easiest way to store dough for pizza. It is simply prepared, divided into portions, rolled down by the koloboks, then into the food film and into the refrigerator. If the pizza needs to be cooked in the next 2-3 days, then it's enough for an ordinary refrigerator, and if you store it longer, it's in the freezer. There it is calm even for six months. After defrosting, the dough can be used as freshly prepared.
To store the biscuit dough, it is folded in a hermetically sealed container and then in a plastic bag. On the shelf in the fridge, it will last for a week, and in the freezer the storage period is up to six months.
Shortbread can also be stored frozen, although a little less - 2-3 months. After defrosting it must be hand-waved thoroughly, so that the lumps disappear. A cookie baked from such a dough will become even more crumbly. But another variety of shortcake, chopped, is not subject to long storage. During freezing it will become too hard and will not be usable.
Puff pastry well tolerates storage in the cold. To fresh puff pastry is not dried, it must be wrapped in a food film and put on a shelf in the refrigerator, where it will calmly wait 2-3 days. But before freezing it must be packed in a tight package. In this form it will be stored in the freezer for 5-6 months.