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How to make a pastry syringe? Video
The decoration of any dish and, in particular, a confectionery product is of no small importance and even makes it tastier. Various technological techniques and methods are used to decorate baked goods. The simplest and most popular are patterns, ornaments, cream inscriptions. To do this, you need a pastry syringe.
In appearance, the confectionery syringe made at the factory resembles an ordinary medical one. But it has a larger container, and instead of needles, it has nozzles that are tapered or flattened at the end with figured or slot-like holes. The cream is placed in this container and, with the help of a press, squeezed out of the nozzle, like a toothpaste from a tube. Its surface can have a rather intricate shape due to the figured slots.
Sometimes, instead of a syringe, a culinary bag is used – a dense plastic bag with a nozzle welded into the corner, the cream from which is squeezed out when the bag is squeezed by hand. But what if there is no such syringe or bag at hand? You can make them yourself at home using available tools.
How to make your own pastry syringe or bag
If you dye your hair yourself, you can use a long-tipped bottle containing an oxidizing agent for the dye instead of a pastry syringe. If the bottle is rinsed well with water, it can be used as a small syringe. Its tip can be cut obliquely closer to the lid so that the hole is wider.
Homemade pastry syringes with small holes can be filled with hot black and white chocolate and draw lace patterns with them, make inscriptions
If you take a thick plastic bag and cut off one corner of it, you have a tool that can easily replace a cooking bag.
In this capacity, you can use:
- milk carton
- plastic file for storing sheets of paper and documents
- plastic bag
- bag rolled up of baking paper
You can use several of these bags if you cut the corners of them differently. By simply cutting off triangles with different heights, from 3 to 7 mm, you get a device with which you can write or squeeze out a cream in the form of a sausage. If you cut a hole in the bag with cloves, such a sausage will turn out to be ribbed.
How to use different tip shapes
With these tips, you can draw not only linear patterns. An evenly cut small hole can be used to apply balls and hemispheres. Squeeze the cream out of the bag at one point without moving your hand. When the size of the ball is sufficient, stop pressing and abruptly move the tip to the side.
Fill your homemade cooking bag no more than 2/3 full so that it can be wrapped well and the cream does not start to flow out from the back when squeezed
You can decorate the cake with cream shells with the tip with a hole cut out with cloves. Begin to squeeze out the cream, holding the bag in one place, at a slight slope, then stop pressing and remove the bag with a movement towards you so that the tail appears on the shell.