Chopped Paste

Ingredients

• One quart of pastry flour
• two cupfuls of unwashed butter
• one teaspoonful of salt
• one tablespoonful of sugar
• a scant cupful of ice water

Method

1. 1

   Put the flour, salt, sugar, and butter in the chopping-tray.

2. 2

   Chop all together until the butter is thoroughly mixed with the flour; then add the water, and continue chopping.

3. 3

   When well mixed, sprinkle the board with flour, turn the paste on it, and roll into a flat piece.

4. 4

   Place in a pan on the ice.

5. 5

   When hard, use the same as puff paste.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's new cook book and marketing guide (1880) by Maria Parloa, page 124. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

hopped. Paste, One quart of pastry flour, two cupfuls of unwashed butter, one teaspoonful of salt, one table -spoonful of sugar, and a scant cupful of ice water. Put the flour, salt, sugar and but- ter in the chopping-tray. Chop all together until the butter is thoroughly mixed with the flour ; then add the water, and continue chopping. When well mixed, sprinkle the board with flour, turn the paste on it, and roll into a flat piece. Place in a pan on the ice. When hard, use the same as puff paste. It can be used as soon as mixed, but will not, of course, be so nice. French Paste for Raised Pies. One quart of pastry flour, one table-spoonful of sugar

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.