Puff Paste

Ingredients

• One pound of flour
• half a pound of butter
• three quarters of a tea-spoonful of baking powder
• a salt-spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Rub the baking powder quite smooth; stir it into the flour adding salt; mix with as much water as will make it a proper consistency; work it smooth; then cover it, and set it in a cool place for two hours.

2. 2

   Break the butter in pieces; put it in a thin cloth, and squeeze out the milk; roll out the paste a little; then put the butter in the middle; turn the paste over it, and roll it out five or six times, folding it each time in three, keeping the open ends top and bottom.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Vegetarian cookery (1891) by Martha Brotherton, page 92. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Puff Paste. Three quarters of a poimd of flour, half a pound of butter, the yolk of an egg, and one tea-spoonful of lemon-juice. Put part of the flour into the di'edging-box, in order that only the quantity named may be used ; mix the remainder with the lemon -juice, the yolk of an egg, and a little water, and roll in the butter at three dilferent times. No. 365. — Puff Paste. One pound of flour, half a pound of butter, and three quarters of a tea-spoonful of baking powder. Rub the baking-powder quite smooth ; stir it into the flour adding a salt-spoonful of salt

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