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Excellent Short Crust for Sweet Pastry

Name: Excellent Short Crust for Sweet Pastry
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: a pound of flour; half a pound of butter; two ounces of sifted sugar; a slight pinch of salt; sufficient milk to make them up into a very smooth and somewhat firm paste

From Modern cookery, in all its branches, 1884

Serves 2

This crust will rise in the oven and be extremely light.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 315. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EXCELLENT SHORT CRUST FOR SWEET PASTRY. Crumble down very lightly half a pound of butter into a pound of flour, breaking it quite small. Mix well. with these a slight pinch of salt and two ounces of sifted sugar, and add sufficient milk to make them up into a very smooth and somewhat firm paste

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