Pastry

Ingredients

• ½ lb. fine flour
• 2 ozs. lard
• a little salt
• half a cup of cold water
• half a lemon has been squeezed
• ½ lb. butter

Method

1. 1

   Rub the lard and salt into the flour, then add cold water with lemon juice and mix with a knife.

2. 2

   Roll out the dough, spread butter on it, fold, and roll out four or five times.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's diary of a Cape housekeeper (1902) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pastry. — The following recipe of my own is good — \ lb. fine flour, 2 ozs. lard, and a little salt, rubbed into the flour, then add half a cup of cold water, into which half a lemon has been squeezed, and beat it up with a large knife. Now put it on the pastry-board and roll out — not too thin — then spread lb. butter

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