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Ordinary Short Paste

Name: Ordinary Short Paste
Yield: 2 servings
Ingredients: one lb. of flour; one-sixth oz. of salt; one-third pint of cold water; one-half lb. of butter

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 2

Prepare the paste in advance to lose elasticity.

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record

Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 397. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ORDINARY SHORT PASTE Sift one lb. of flour over the mixing-board; make a hollow in its midst, and put therein one-sixth oz. of salt, one-third pint of cold water, and one-half lb. of butter

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