Lenten gingerbread - delicious recipes for honey monastery pies

Since ancient times, tender and fragrant Lenten honey gingerbread has been a favorite delicacy in Rus' during the period of fasting. They were treated to it on ordinary weekdays, and baked on any holidays. As a rule, they were made in large sizes in order to treat as many people as possible. The baked goods do not contain foods prohibited during fasting: butter, milk, eggs. But this does not prevent it from being amazingly delicious, melting in your mouth.

Recipes for the pie have been tested for centuries; monastery cellars, who are responsible for feeding their inhabitants, made their contribution. If you want your home to be filled with the aroma of honey and spices, bake a magnificent pie at home, creating a masterpiece of your own taste.

Any of the proposed recipes can be varied with nuts, dried fruits, and spices. Add carrots, apples, pumpkin, bananas. I am sure that from the proposed options you will be able to choose the most delicious one and please your loved ones with a variety of menus on fasting days.

Lenten honey gingerbread - a simple step-by-step recipe (with photos)

You will need:

• Flour – 2 cups (volume 200 g).
• Granulated sugar - glass.
• Honey – 2 large spoons.
• Walnut kernels - ½ cup.
• Boiled water – 200 ml.
• Sunflower oil – 100 ml.
• Cocoa – 2 large spoons.
• Baking powder – 2 small spoons.
• Coriander - a pinch.
• Cinnamon – a pinch.
• Raisins – ½ cup.

Step by step recipe:

Pour sugar into a bowl, add honey. Dilute with hot water and stir thoroughly to dissolve the ingredients.

Pour in the oil, stir well again. Leave the mixture to cool.

Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl and stir.

Pour the contents from the bowl with the sweet mixture.

Add nuts and raisins (be sure to rinse). Stir the dough.

Transfer the mixture into the mold. Place in oven on middle rack. Oven temperature 200 o C, baking time – 35-40 minutes. Powder the finished gingerbread and run to put the kettle on.

Rug without adding animal fats can be stored for quite a long time even without a refrigerator. After a couple of days it becomes even tastier.

Chocolate monastery gingerbread with cocoa and dried fruits

A classic version of honey pie. According to this recipe, gingerbread has long been baked in monasteries during Lent and church holidays. recipes for classic honey gingerbread on another page.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 250 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 2 large spoons.
• Honey – 6 large spoons.
• Water – 200 ml.
• Sunflower oil – 80 ml.
• Dried cranberries, raisins - ½ cup each.
• Prunes – ¾ cup.
• Jam (jam) for the layer – 5 tablespoons.
• Baking soda - small spoon.
• Cinnamon – 0.5 small spoon.
• Cloves, coriander, cardamom, nutmeg - a pinch each.

For the glaze:

• Sugar – 100 gr.
• Water – 50 ml.

How to bake:

1. Warm the water a little, add honey, stir. Pour in the oil and mix the contents again.
2. In a separate bowl, mix all the spices, soda, cocoa powder. Stir and add sweet water.
3. Add flour in several additions, kneading each portion vigorously to break up any lumps.
4. Add finely chopped prunes, cranberries, raisins.
5. Grease the bottom and sides of the pan with butter and sprinkle with flour. Fill with dough. Preheat the oven to 180-200 o C. Set the timer for 50 minutes.
6. Divide the finished gingerbread lengthwise into 2 cake layers of equal thickness. Spread the bottom layer with jam and cover with the top layer.
7. Make glaze from water and sugar. When it thickens, immediately pour over the top of the pie and smooth it out. Do everything quickly because the glaze hardens instantly.
8. Be patient for about 2 hours so that the gingerbread has time to soak in the jam and the glaze has time to harden well.

Fragrant monastic gingerbread - Lenten recipe with dried fruits

A very simple and quick way to get excellent pastries for tea.

Necessary:

• Flour – 2 cups.
• Apple juice – 200 ml.
• Dried fruits, any – ½ cup.
• Nuts - the same amount.
• Sunflower oil – ½ cup.
• Sugar - a glass.
• Soda – 0.5 teaspoon.
• Salt, vanillin, cinnamon - a pinch each.

How to cook:

1. Finely chop the dried fruits and crush the nuts into crumbs.
2. In a deep container, combine all the products listed in the recipe list. Flour is added last.
3. Knead the dough, mix well. Transfer to form.
4. Bake the gingerbread at 180°C. Cooking time: approximately an hour, depending on the power of your oven.

Attention! Feel free to replace refined sunflower oil with a non-refined product. This oil will give the cake a rich aroma of seeds.

Choosing the right ingredients

To make the honey cake not only tasty, but also healthy, carefully consider the choice of ingredients - they must be natural and high quality. There are many recipes for preparing the delicacy, however, the main ingredient is always honey. Known for its beneficial qualities, honey not only adds a unique taste to baked goods, but also makes them healthy. However, it is worth remembering that only a natural product has these properties, but not its imitation. It is easy to distinguish natural honey from artificial honey:

• Natural honey flows from the spoon in a continuous thin stream, does not drip or splash, and forms a small mound at the point of flow.
• In a glass of water, a spoonful of natural honey should dissolve completely, without any residue. There should be no rainbow film formed on the surface of the water, and no sediment at the bottom.

When making baked goods, it is better to use fresh, liquid honey. However, if the season of fresh honey has already passed and the product has become candied, it doesn’t matter - you can return it to its original consistency by heating it slightly in a water bath with constant stirring. You should not melt honey directly over the fire - most of the beneficial properties of honey disappear with strong heating. Honey gingerbread may contain vegetable oil - it is best to use refined sunflower oil, unless the recipe suggests otherwise. This oil will make the dough more tender and moisturized and will not impart an off-flavor to the baked goods.

The delicacy recipe may also contain nuts, coffee, cocoa, various spices and herbs - choose what suits your taste.

Lenten gingerbread with jam and tea

The pie is traditionally made with tea leaves, which gives it a special twist. This is a well-known way to prepare dough for Lenten pies; I already gave a similar recipe when I talked about pies with jam . Come in if you're interested. By the way, there are many non-lenten recipes for jam gingerbread. You will see this if you go to another page of the site.

Use any jam that you can find in your bins; I like blackcurrant jam, which is considered classic. Delicious with plum, strawberry, apple, cherry. Take tea without additives, a natural black variety.

Required:

1. Flour – 400-500 gr.
2. Strong tea – 200 ml.
3. Honey – 50 gr.
4. Sugar – 50 gr.
5. Jam – 200 gr.
6. Sunflower oil – 130 ml.
7. Soda – ½ small spoon.
8. Vanillin, cinnamon - a pinch (instead of cinnamon, sometimes they use powdered ginger).

How to bake:

1. Brew very strong tea and cool.
2. Place jam in a bowl and add baking soda. The baking powder will immediately work and begin to hiss and bubble, especially if the jam is sour.
3. Pour the cooled tea leaves and oil. Add sugar, honey. Mix everything thoroughly. To make the ingredients combine faster and better, use a blender.
4. Add cinnamon and vanilla, beat well again.
5. Add flour in three additions, kneading the dough, which resembles the thickness of sour cream.
6. Pour the dough mixture into a greased mold.
7. Level the surface. Place on the middle rack of the oven, preheated to 190 o C. Baking time 50 minutes.
8. Remove the finished pie and cover with a towel. Leave it alone for 20 minutes. Then transfer to a plate and sprinkle with powder.

Attention! For festive serving, I advise you to cut the pie into layers (lengthwise). Then coat with jam and fold them into a cake.

Description of preparation:

Once upon a time, gingerbread was one of the most popular types of traditional Russian pastries.
It was prepared from gingerbread dough with the addition of a large amount of honey, dried fruits (primarily raisins), nuts, candied fruits - there is much less flour in a gingerbread than in rich pastries. There are dozens of gingerbread recipes, but a proper gingerbread consists of two cake layers, between which there is a layer of jam or marmalade. The top can be covered with glaze or powdered sugar. By the way, Russian gingerbreads were once huge - up to one and a half meters wide! We ate them in more than one sitting :). I offer you the simplest recipe for making Lenten gingerbread, which requires practically nothing except those products that are always in the kitchen. Due to the large amount of nuts and dried fruits, this gingerbread is very filling, but at the same time it does not affect your figure (unless, of course, you abuse it). Let's get started? Purpose: For children / For an afternoon snack / Inexpensive Main ingredient: Dough Dish: Baking / Gingerbread Diet: Lenten dishes / Vegetarian food

Monastic gingerbread with coffee - Lenten recipe with nuts

Replace the tea leaves with strong coffee, and the gingerbread will take on a completely different taste.

Take:

• Flour – 350 gr.
• Strong coffee - a glass.
• Granulated sugar - 1.5 cups.
• Honey – 2 tablespoons.
• Soda – ¾ small spoon.
• Nut kernels - ½ cup.
• Spices for gingerbread: cinnamon, nutmeg, star anise, pepper, ginger, cardamom, cloves (ready mixture sold).
• Salt.

How to bake:

1. Brew strong natural coffee, strain and cool.
2. Add honey, sugar, put on the burner to cook. When the sugar has completely dissolved, remove from heat.
3. Add baking soda. Pour the syrup into the bowl with the flour.
4. Add crushed nuts, all gingerbread seasonings as you wish, and salt.
5. Knead the dough. Place it in a mold, bake the gingerbread at 180 o C until dry.

How to cook Lenten carrot gingerbread - a simple recipe

A dietary version of a delicious carrot pie taken from a collection of monastery recipes.

Compound:

• Grated carrots – 2 cups.
• Flour - 4 cups.
• Honey – 2 large spoons.
• Water – 200 ml.
• Soda – 1.5 teaspoon.
• Salt – ½ teaspoon.
• Granulated sugar - 2 cups.
• Sunflower oil - a glass.
• Cinnamon, raisins, nuts - optional.

How to cook:

1. Finely grate the carrots and mix with sugar. Take a break for a quarter of an hour to let the vegetable release its juice.
2. Add the rest of the recipe ingredients to the bowl. If you decide to take nuts, give preference to walnuts or almonds. Be sure to chop them into crumbs with a knife.
3. It is advisable to extinguish soda with lemon juice.
4. Transfer the dough into the mold, place it in the oven for 30-40 minutes, preheated to 180 o C. After the specified time, check the readiness of the pie with a toothpick. Increase baking time if necessary. If the top starts to burn, cover with baking paper.

Honey gingerbread in the oven or slow cooker

Time: 60 minutes

Servings: 6

The simplest and most accessible recipe is honey gingerbread. Since there are no special ingredients here, it can also be called a fairly budget-friendly option for a holiday dessert.

And if you decorate such a masterpiece correctly and select original additional ingredients, then no one will ever guess that the dessert is actually dietary.

Product Set

• 2 cups of flour;
• 1 glass of black tea;
• 150 grams of peeled walnuts;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 100 milliliters of sunflower oil;
• 75 grams of honey;
• 40 grams of lemon juice;
• 1 packet of vanillin;
• 1 pinch of soda;
• 1 pinch of salt;
• Cinnamon (to taste);
• Ginger (to taste).

Cooking method

1. First you need to prepare the dried fruits: sort them out, try to remove any spoiled ones (so as not to spoil the taste of the finished product), rinse them thoroughly, then place them on a towel and dry them a little to remove excess moisture.
2. Dried fruits and nuts need to be transferred to a blender and chopped properly, the smaller the better.
3. Pour warm, freshly brewed tea, a little melted honey, and refined (odorless) oil into a large bowl and mix well. Then add sugar, salt, ground dried fruits, as well as cinnamon and ginger, the amount of which can be adjusted to your own taste. Mix again.
4. The last step is to add soda; it is better to extinguish it with lemon juice (this way there will be no unpleasant smell, as when extinguishing it with vinegar, which is sometimes present in baked goods).
5. Now we begin, continuously stirring, pour in the flour, this is required so that the mixture becomes homogeneous, there is not a single lump, and all the spices are well dispersed throughout the entire perimeter, giving their unique taste.
6. While the dough is kneading, you can turn on the oven so that it is ready for baking a delicious and aromatic delicacy. It should be heated to a temperature of 190 degrees Celsius.
7. While the oven is heating up, you can prepare a baking dish, line its bottom and sides with baking paper or grease it with butter. The liquid mixture is poured into the mold and carefully leveled with a spoon (so that the top is nice and neat). In this form, the lean honey gingerbread goes into the oven for 60 minutes until fully cooked and until golden brown.
8. If you need to prepare a dessert in a multicooker, you should first grease the multicooker cup with oil, pour out the mixture and level it. Next, you should select the “Baking” mode and set the time to 50 minutes. Before removing the finished product, you need to check the degree of readiness with a wooden stick.
9. In addition, such a lean gingerbread in a slow cooker, as a rule, turns out to be very airy and high, and this allows you to cut it into 2 parts and soak the cut between them with something tasty. For example, make a layer with jam or cream. In this case, it will be necessary to leave it to rest and soak for several hours and only then serve it to the table.

In this simple way you can prepare a simple honey and tea dessert for any occasion. Due to the spices, it will look equally good on both a festive table and an ordinary one. By the way, if you add apples to the recipe instead of dried fruits, you will get a rather healthy lean gingerbread with apples. Using the same principle, you can make a dessert with jam and add any other goodies.

Lenten recipe for honey gingerbread with apples

A great variation on the old honey pie. The baked goods are crumbly, aromatic, and soft.

You will need:

• Flour – 500 gr.
• Apples – 2 pcs. medium size.
• Honey – 50 gr.
• Sugar – 250 gr.
• Warm water – 250 ml.
• Baking powder – 10 gr.
• Sunflower oil – 50 ml.
• Salt.
• Cinnamon – ¼ spoon.

Warm water can be replaced with apple juice or strong tea.

Preparation:

1. Turn on the oven to warm up to 180 o C.
2. Warm the water, add sugar and honey, stir.
3. Add baking powder and salt. Pour in the oil, add cinnamon.
4. Gradually adding flour, knead the dough.
5. Cut the apples into thin slices and line the bottom of the pan. Place the dough mixture on top of the apple slices. Bake the gingerbread for 30-40 minutes. leave to cool directly in the oven for a quarter of an hour. Then remove, powder and serve for tea.

How to bake lean rye gingerbread with honey and cocoa?

Rye gingerbread is no less tasty than wheat gingerbread, but more healthy. I also really like the color of these baked goods, and thanks to the addition of cocoa, they acquire the taste of chocolate. The ingredients and recipe are very simple and can be baked in the oven or slow cooker. Ginger and cinnamon are used for flavor, but you can add any spices you like.

Be sure to prepare honey gingerbread, and it will become your favorite dish not only on fasting days. This is a great recipe for anyone with a sweet tooth, including vegetarians, vegans and weight watchers. With such pastries, tea drinking will be especially pleasant and warm. Share your favorite recipes with friends, leave comments and visit the blog. See you again!

Sincerely, Olga Steshkina