Puff Paste

Ingredients

• One quart of flour
• half a pound of butter
• half a pound of lard
• half a teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Mix half the flour with a small piece of butter and lard, salt, and enough cold water to make a dough.

2. 2

   Roll out to half an inch thick, dot with lard and butter, sprinkle flour, fold, and roll out again.

3. 3

   Repeat until all ingredients are used.

4. 4

   Bake until fair and white.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 79. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Puff Paste. One quart of flour, half a pound of butter, half a pound of lard, half a teaspoonful of salt

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