How do i make croissants??!
Answers: someone told me just to roll and bake puff pastry?
Easy Croissants
1 c Warm milk
1 ts Sugar
1 tb Yeast
1 c Flour
3/4 c Milk, room temperature
1 1/2 ts Salt
1/4 c Sugar
1 Egg, beaten
1/2 c Butter melted and cooled
4 c Flour
1 c Cold butter
1 Egg, beaten with cold water
Instructions:
Stir warm milk and sugar together. Add yeast. Let stand 10 minutes. Stir
well. Add flour; beat well. Add milk, sugar and egg. Beat until smooth.
Add butter; beat and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, place the 4 cups of
flour and the chilled butter. Cut butter into flour until pieces are the
size of beans (not too small). Pour the liquid batter into the flour
mixture; stir until moistened. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. Remove from refrigerator.
Press into a compact ball on a floured board and divide into 4 parts. Roll
each into a circle 12" or 16". Cut each circle into 6 or 8 pie-shaped
wedges. For each croissant roll a wedge towards the point. Shape into a
crescent and place on ungreased baking sheet. Let rise at room temperature
until doubled. (May take 2 hours or more). Brush each with egg beaten with
cold water. Preheat oven to 400 F. Place croissants in oven. Lower
temperature to 350 F and bake for 15 - 20 minutes until golden. Makes 24 -
32.
Using puff pastry doesn't give them that croissant flavor. It is a long process, with lots of rolling butter into the dough.Just google croissant recipe and you will find plenty.
You can make croissants by buying frozen puff pastry by rolling it out and rolling into croissants. Making puff pastry from scratch involves rolling fat (i.e. butter or SPS) into the dough over and over again. The fat between the layers of dough tenderizes the gluten in the dough; therefore you will have a flaky pasty. Puff pasty is fairly tedious and time consuming to make for someone without baking experience, so frozen pre made would be more suitable..