Flaky Crust

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• one-half pound of butter
• one teaspoonful of baking powder
• one salt-spoonful of salt
• one-half gill of cold water
• whites of two eggs

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour through a sieve upon a mixing board.

2. 2

   Whip the whites of eggs with salt to a light froth.

3. 3

   Mix the flour to a firm dough with the froth of eggs and cold water, roll it out thinly, spread one piece of butter on the dough, fold in three layers, and roll out again.

4. 4

   Repeat until all butter is incorporated.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Flaky Crust. — One pound of flour, one-half pound of butter, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one salt- spoonful of salt, one-half gill of cold water, whites of two eggs

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