Crackers belong to one of the subspecies of bread and biscuits. They were first prepared back in the 18th century. baker, who decided to experiment and change the recipe and method of baking biscuits familiar for that time. The main components that make up the dough fill it not only with useful, but also with important consumer properties. Crackers can be stored for a long period of time without losing their original qualities.

Energy and nutritional value of crackers

Today, there are several types of crackers that can be made from yeast or non-yeast dough. Often, creamy crackers are complemented with sweet or savory fillings.

The energy value of biscuits and crackers directly depends on the composition of their dough, and especially the flour that was used to prepare them. But, it is worth remembering that they belong to high-calorie foods, containing from 350 to 444 kcal per 100 grams of products. Wheat and cheese crackers are considered the most nutritious - over 500 kcal.

Crackers and biscuits are quite nutritious biscuits, containing a large amount of fat and simple carbohydrates... Average Nutrient Ratios:

• Fat - 22.5.
• Proteins - 7.9.
• Carbohydrates - 61.3.

What's good about crackers and biscuits?

The beneficial properties of this type of cookie are determined by the rich chemical composition their main components. Crackers are a source of numerous nutrients that ensure full and proper functionality of the body.

The harm of crackers

Cracker belongs to high-calorie flour products that provoke the formation of subcutaneous fat in large volumes. That is why, with frequent use of such products, there is a high probability of developing obesity of any degree.

In the production of crackers, various preservatives and additional fillers are added to their composition, which reduce all beneficial features of this product. Under their influence, it is possible to get allergies and diseases of the digestive system in the form of gastritis and pancreatitis in the first place.

	Product	Kcal	Proteins, g	Fat, g	Angle, g
	Bran crackers	416	9,2	14,1	63,2
	Crackers made from premium flour	417,6	9,2	14,1	67,7
	Biscuits made from first grade flour	345	11	1,4	69,5
	Biscuits made from premium flour	393,5	9,7	10,2	70,1
	Biscuits	393	9,7	10,2	65,6
	Cheese Crackers	503	10,1	25,3	58,2

Galette or contains much less sugar and fat than its counterparts, due to this "Maria" is rightfully considered a dietary delicacy. In addition to self-consumption, biscuit biscuits are usually used as a basis for other desserts. If the composition of the store products does not inspire confidence in you, then prepare the Maria cookies yourself, taking note of the recipes below.

Maria biscuit recipe

Ingredients:

• flour - 130 g;
• egg - 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar - 150 g;
• vegetable oil - 15 ml;
• milk - 15 ml;
• soda - 1/4 tsp.

Preparation

As for the most ordinary cookies, dry ingredients and liquid ingredients should be mixed separately for the lingering "Maria". Beat the egg with vegetable oil, milk and sugar. Pass the flour through a sieve and mix with baking soda and a small pinch of salt. Add the dry flour mixture to the eggs, knead a very tight dough, immediately put it on a flour-dusted table and roll it into a layer a couple of millimeters thick: the thinner, the crisper the cookies will be. Cut out cookies of any shape and size from the layer, put them on a baking sheet and put in an oven brought to 215 degrees. After 5 minutes, you can get it!

The recipe for lingering cookies "Maria" at home

Ingredients:

• flour - 230 g;
• baking powder - 3 tsp;
• vinegar - 3/4 tsp;
• - 65 g;
• milk - 210 ml;
• honey - 65 ml.

Preparation

While the oven is warming up to 215 degrees, start preparing the dough. After mixing the dry ingredients, add cubes of ice oil to them and crush everything into crumbs. Dissolve the honey in the milk and pour the solution into the oil crumbs along with the vinegar. Knead an elastic and non-sticky dough, roll it into a half-centimeter thick cake and cut. Lightly coat the cookies with milk before placing in the oven and bake for 8-12 minutes.

Cookies "Maria" - recipe according to GOST

Ingredients:

Preparation

Mix milk with vegetable oil and dissolve granulated sugar in it. Combine flour with starch and baking powder, and then mix dry ingredients with milk. Knead a tight dough and leave to rest for 10 minutes to roll out more easily, and set the oven to heat up to 140 degrees yourself.

Roll out the dough into a layer 2 mm thick, cut and place in the oven for half an hour.

What are biscuit biscuits

Currently, biscuits such as biscuits are mainly used for baby and diet food. This food product is made using different types of wheat flour, salt, sugar, a small amount of yeast and baking powder. It can be stored for a long time, so it can be easily taken on long hiking trips and expeditions, long-distance sea voyages and in the field. Galette cookies are called simple if they do not use fats and sugar in their manufacture, as well as fatty - this is if the content of this substance reaches about 18%. In the manufacture of simple flour, second or first grade flour is used. If you need to lose weight, then it is not recommended to consume a product with a high percentage of fat. Simple biscuit biscuits can be stored for about two years, and biscuits with high level fat content can retain its nutritional benefits for about 6 months.

Galette cookies help you lose weight

It is also worth noting that the calorie content of biscuit biscuits is quite low, in addition, it is a non-allergenic food product, thanks to which everyone can lose weight quite easily.

How to make biscuit biscuits at home

For cooking, you need to take 1 small egg, 1.5 tbsp. l. granulated sugar, odorless vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l., milk - 1 tbsp. l., 1 tbsp. flour and 0.25 tsp. soda. After all the ingredients are prepared, you can proceed directly to the process of preparing this dietary product. Its recipe is very simple and quick:

1. Mix baking soda with sifted flour.
2. Stir the egg with granulated sugar, add milk, vegetable oil to this mixture and mix everything well until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Then add the mixed flour and soda. The result is a very tough dough that should not stick to your hands.
3. The resulting dough should be rolled into a very thin cake, approximately 1 mm thick. Then, using molds, make small cookies, pierce them with a fork and bake them in an oven preheated to 220 degrees, for about 5 minutes. Moreover, you need to keep them there until the surface acquires a light golden hue.

What to supplement

The end result is a cookie that is light and crunchy. If your diet allows you to consume cinnamon, zest or lemon juice, then it is recommended to add a small amount of these ingredients even at the kneading stage. If you do not tolerate egg yolks, then it is better to add one protein to the dough; if you are intolerant to sugar or soda, it is better to remove them from the recipe altogether. In case you just don't like the presence vegetable oil, protein, milk, then it is recommended not to put them at all, but to replace them with an equal amount of plain boiled water. It is also worth noting that this product becomes the most dietary the next day after its preparation.

If we talk about the energy value of biscuit biscuits, their calorie content is quite high (especially in fatty varieties) and can reach almost 400 Kcal. However, due to the fact that it is quite dry, 100 g is not one or two, or even 10 pieces of cookies. Takeaway: If you're on a diet, eat homemade biscuit biscuits or look for low-fat varieties.

Tea is more pleasant to drink with cookies, especially fresh and homemade ones. To delight yourself and your family, try making crispy biscuits.

What are biscuits, how did they appear?

Biscuits are dry crispy biscuits, but in French cuisine, such a concept is a combination of several dishes that are some kind of or substitute for bread or pancakes. The name, by the way, is translated as "boulder" or "naked", which is due to some external similarities with smooth stones.

The history of the origin of biscuit biscuits is supposedly rooted in Brittany, but the exact time period in which such a dish appeared is unfortunately not known. Initially, it was intended to replace bread on long campaigns, expeditions, as well as during the war. And such peculiar cakes really had all the qualities of bakery products, but at the same time they perfectly retained their properties for a long time and did not deteriorate.

It is known that biscuits were taken by Christopher Columbus when he set off on long voyages. At that time, such cookies were the basis of the diet of soldiers and sailors, but then they "migrated" to the tables of ordinary Frenchmen, and later spread throughout Europe.

What are they made of?

The simplest traditional biscuits are made from flour and water, sometimes salt or sugar is added. Flour can be either wheat flour familiar to many, or buckwheat, oatmeal, corn and any other. Also, the composition may include fat, that is, oil. Eggs are also added to modern cookies, as well as various flavors and fillers, for example, vanillin, poppy seeds, cinnamon, zest, and so on.

Depending on the composition, dry or plain biscuits (that is, crackers, low-fat cookies) are distinguished, as well as fatty ones with the addition of margarine or butter(the proportion of fat can reach 15-20%). All of them have such qualities as light porous structure, lack of moisture, as well as fast water absorption. But if fatty biscuits are stored for a maximum of six months, then the shelf life of simple dry biscuits can be up to two years.

Are biscuits useful?

The use of biscuit biscuits lies in their nutritional value because flour is a source of carbohydrates that are used for energy production. It also contains B vitamins, which take part in many processes in the body and are responsible for smooth operation. nervous system.

The composition includes potassium useful for the heart, phosphorus necessary for the brain, iron that improves blood composition, is responsible for the water-salt balance of sodium, eliminates increased muscle and vascular tone, magnesium and other substances. By the way, biscuit cookies are fine.

Either way, biscuits should be consumed in moderation, and if overused, they can be harmful.

• First, it can disrupt digestion and cause constipation.
• Secondly, it is worth remembering that biscuits belong to flour dishes, so that they can lead to a set excess weight if you eat them often and in large quantities (especially fatty ones with a high oil content).
• In addition, sweet biscuits increase blood glucose levels, while salty biscuits can cause fluid retention in the body and, as a result, edema.

The calorie content of dry biscuit biscuits is about 280-290 calories, while the fatty one is more high-calorie (up to 400 kcal).

How to cook?

How to make biscuit biscuits? There is a mass different recipes, and a few will be discussed below.

Simple option

This recipe is extremely simple and involves the use of the following ingredients:

• four glasses of flour;
• a tablespoon of salt;
• 1.5 cups of water;
• you can add a little soda, quenched with lemon vinegar (it will make the texture lighter and more porous).

Preparation:

1. Pour flour on a table or a wide board (immediately add salt to it), form a slide and make a depression in its center. Start gradually pouring slightly warmed water into the hole. Knead the dough.
2. Continue kneading the dough, gradually adding water. As a result, it should be quite dense and not stick to your hands.
3. Roll out the dough into a thin layer (optimal thickness is five millimeters). Next, cut it into circles or any other shapes.
4. Place the pieces on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
5. Bake biscuits in an oven preheated to 170-180 degrees for about half an hour.

Savory with basil

Try homemade savory biscuits with basil. To do this, you will need:

• five glasses of flour (preferably wheat flour);
• a glass of sunflower or olive oil;
• two glasses of mineral water (preferably salty);
• a tablespoon of salt;
• three to four tablespoons of dried and chopped basil.

Description of the cooking process:

1. Pour flour into a wide and deep bowl, immediately mix it with basil and salt. Then start pouring into the center mineral water while kneading the dough with your hands.
2. When the water runs out, add oil to the mixture and continue to knead the dough until it becomes firm and smooth.
3. Preheat the oven to 180-190 degrees. Roll out the dough into a layer about 3-5 millimeters thick, cut it in any way into pieces of any shape. Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment, send it to the oven.
4. Bake the cookies for literally fifteen to twenty minutes.

Sweet with filling

You can make delicious and aromatic biscuits with apples for tea. To do this, prepare the following ingredients:

• 200 grams of oatmeal or wheat flour;
• half a pack (about 100 grams) of butter;
• five tablespoons of water;
• a teaspoon of sugar.

For apple filling:

• four medium apples;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• one to two tablespoons of sugar.

Preparation:

1. First, knead a dense and homogeneous dough from flour, cold or better ice water, sugar and softened butter. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
2. In the meantime, get busy with the stuffing. Grind the apples in any way, after peeling them and removing the cores. You can cut them into thin slices or grate them.
3. Remove the dough from the refrigerator, roll it into a layer about 5 millimeters thick and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet or in a shallow baking dish. Place crushed apples in the center of the cake, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar. Wrap the edges towards the filling.
4. Send the apple biscuit to the oven preheated to 190 degrees for half an hour.

Finally, some useful tips:

• To make homemade biscuits crisper, keep the dough in the refrigerator for an hour or two before baking.
• Cookies will turn out to be airy and flaky if, when rolling the dough, it is rolled several times and rolled again.
• To prevent the dough from sticking to the table, try rolling it out on a special silicone mat.
• Ingredients can be changed. So, you can add poppy seeds, sesame seeds, any spices, zest and seasonings to the dough. You can also make biscuits with different fillings, they also turn out to be very tasty.
• Before baking, you can prick the dough sheets with a fork to keep them crisp and fluffy and not bubble during cooking.
• The thinner you roll out the dough, the more delicious the finished cookies will be.
• If you are in a hurry, then preheat the oven well (up to 220-230 degrees) and bake biscuits in it for literally fifteen minutes. But you can dry them longer at an average temperature, so they will definitely not burn.

Making biscuits is very simple, and such a dish will be a great addition to tea or a great snack.

The lingering biscuit is good because it can be consumed even by dieters. This is not surprising: there is very little sugar in it, and the composition is based on water and flour. The result is a low-calorie hypoallergenic product. This is exactly what Maria biscuits are.

Cookies "Maria"

The composition of the cookies "Maria"

The traditional Maria biscuits include:

• Wheat flour;
• natural sweetener;
• vegetable oil;
• flour improver;
• invert syrup;
• dry milk whey;
• baking powder;
• salt;
• vanillin;
• water;
• sugar.

For the preparation of biscuit biscuits, a special sponge technology is used. It is thanks to her that a dry layered product is obtained that practically does not absorb moisture and does not crumble. Numerous holes in the biscuit are not decoration, but a production feature. The punctures ensure that the dough sheets remain flat during baking and do not bulge.

The calorie content of the Maria cookies is 431 kcal. 100 g of the product contains:

• 71.5 g carbohydrates;
• 8.2 g of proteins;
• 12.2 g fat.

Due to the fact that biscuits are low in fat, salt and sugar, they are easily and quickly digested. "Maria" is great for diabetics, children, pregnant and lactating women, people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

The benefits of biscuit biscuits

If you use premium flour for making biscuits, this allows you to provide the body with vitamins B, PP and H. This helps to improve the functioning of the nervous system and has a positive effect on the condition of the skin. In addition, flour contains fiber, which ensures the proper functioning of the intestines.

The manufacturer claims that "Maria" contains trace elements necessary for the body: fluorine, potassium, iodine, calcium, phosphorus, zinc and magnesium. But even despite this, it is impossible to abuse cookies: this threatens with bloating due to increased gas production. It is impossible to replace good food with biscuits.