Puff Paste

Ingredients

• half a pound of flour
• 1 yolk of egg
• half a teaspoonful of lemon-juice
• half a teacnpful of water
• half a pound of butter

Method

1. 1

   Put flour in a bowl and a little salt; beat up the yolk of egg; add lemon juice and water; mix to the flour and make into a paste.

2. 2

   Press butter into a cloth to extract water.

3. 3

   Roll out the paste, put butter in the middle, double it over, and roll it out.

4. 4

   Fold in 3, let it stand in a cool place for 15 minutes, then roll it out thin; repeat this 3 times at intervals of 15 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Puff Paste. Put half a pound of flour in a bowl and a little salt ; beat up 1 yolk of egg ; add to it half a teaspoonful of lemon -juice and half a teacnpful of water; mix it to the flovu', and make it into a paste. Press half a pound of butter

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