4. Conclusions
Measurement of cookie dough consistency in farinograph showed that the one containing the oil behaved differently than those containing the other three types of fats. This farinogram looked as though the dough was developing during the initial stages of mixing in the farinograph. And also this dough did not break down during mixing and the farinogram had a relatively stable and wider band. This could be probably because there was more free water in the dough which had not formed an emulsion with the oil. And this free water was being utilized for the development of the gluten proteins making the dough more elastic and offering more resistance to mixing. On the other hand, doughs containing the plastic fats showed a tendency for break down inferring the relative soft texture of the dough.
The measurement of texture of the cookie dough in the texture analyzer revealed that dough containing the hydrogenated fat ‘dalda’, needed more force to compress it than those containing either the sunflower oil or the other two types of fats. Here texture of the cookie dough containing oil was similar to the ones containing the bakery fat.
Comparing the above two measurements with the cookie texture, the mixing trend of the cookie dough in the farinograph seem to give a better insight into the texture of the cookies rather than its initial consistency in the farinograph or the measurement of its compression force in a texture analyzer.