shortening

Question 1

what is shortening

Answer 1

shortening is dough mixtures such as shortcrust pastry shortbread which have a very tender crumbly melt in the mouth texture when baked

Question 2

why when shortening does it have a very crumbly melt in the mouth tender taste

Answer 2

it’s because they have a relatively high fat content which is mixed in with the flour and prevents the gluten in the flour from forming longer molecules



Question 3

explain shortcrust pastry

Answer 3

The first stage involves cutting up butter or solid vegetable five spread and rubbing it in with a flower with a finger tips

do you fingertips are use because they’re the coolest part of the hand and the aim is not to get the fat to melt at the stage

The need to have this plasticity to allow you to rub it in easily

as the fat is rubbed in the mixture gradually becomes a crumbly texture like breadcrumbs

Question 4

what happens when you add cold water to The bread crumb like a mixture of the shortening

Answer 4

When cold water is added to the mixture to bind together and form the pastry out the water with layers of the fact about the formation of the long route and molecules and only short ones to form