Homemade recipe №389 Punch cake recipe number 1

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous fluffy mass of yellow color, with a smooth glossy surface, well retaining its shape.
Manual: The peeled and cut butter is whipped in a beater at low speed until smooth. Chilled “Charlotte” syrup with the addition of cognac or dessert wine, vanilla powder are gradually poured into the whipped mass and beat at a high number of revolutions until the volume increases by 2.5–3 times. Duration of whipping is 20-30 min.

Manual: Charlotte syrup is prepared in two ways.
** First method. ** Granulated sugar, eggs and milk are thoroughly mixed and brought to a boil with constant stirring. The syrup is boiled for 4-5 minutes to a temperature of 104-105 ℃. The prepared syrup is filtered and cooled in the summer to a temperature of 20-22 ℃, in the winter - up to 28-30 ℃.
** Second way. **
a) Preparation of milk sugar syrup. Granulated sugar and milk, provided by the recipe, are mixed and boiled for 60–90 minutes to a temperature of 104–105 ℃ (test per thin thread). The moisture content of the milk sugar syrup is 27%.
b) Preparation of Charlotte syrup. Beat the eggs in a whisk machine for 5-7 minutes and gradually pour in hot milk-sugar syrup in a 1: 1 ratio. The brewed mass is mixed with the rest of the milk-sugar syrup and kept for 5 minutes at a temperature of 95 ℃. The finished syrup is filtered and cooled.

Description: ** Characteristics of a semi-finished product. ** Homogeneous, plastic, glossy white mass.
Manual: Granulated sugar and water in a ratio of 3: 1 are brought to a boil in an open kettle with stirring, removing the resulting foam. Then close the cauldron with a lid, boil the syrup to a temperature of 108 ℃ and add molasses heated to 50 ℃, then boil it down to a temperature of 115-117 ℃ (test for a weak ball). At the end of cooking, add the essence.
Hot syrup is poured in a layer of 20–30 mm on a table with marble chips and cooled to 35–45 ℃ for 40–45 minutes. Chilled syrup is whipped on a beater for 15-20 minutes or manually on the table using a spatula.

Description: ** Characteristics of the semi-finished product. ** Round shape. Light brown thin crust. The crumb is porous, dense, yellow.
Manual:
** Preparation of the dough. ** Pre-cooled egg whites are beaten in a whisk machine for 20-30 minutes, first at low, then at a high number of revolutions until the volume of the mass increases by 6-7 times. At the end of the beat, add citric acid. Beat egg yolks with granulated sugar separately for 30-40 minutes, add essence, flour and beat the mass for another 5-8 seconds, then carefully add the whipped whites and mix until a homogeneous dough is obtained. The finished dough should be fluffy, well-saturated with air, evenly mixed, without lumps, creamy color and thick consistency. The moisture content of the dough is 44–46%.
** Shaping. ** The biscuit dough is immediately deposited on pastry sheets covered with paper. When depositing round cakes for "Boucher" pastries, tubes with round holes are used.
** Baking. ** Baking duration 15-30 minutes at a temperature of 190-200 10 ℃. The baked flat cakes are cooled and allowed to stand for 8 hours at a temperature of 15–20 ℃. After that, they are removed from the paper, the biscuit is cleaned.