Pastry (Short, rich)

Ingredients

• 6 oz. butter
• 1 lb. flour
• A little cold water
• A pinch of salt

Method

1. 1

   Pass the flour through a wire sieve, add a pinch of salt, rub the butter into the flour lightly with the tips of the fingers, keeping it as cool as possible, add enough water to mix into a stiff paste (the less water used the shorter the paste will be); flour the board and roll out the pastry once only.

2. 2

   If for sweets a teaspoonful of castor sugar may be used to each half pound of flour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PASTRY (Short, rich). 6 oz. butter i lb. flour A little cold water A pinch of salt

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