Puff Paste with Baking Powder

Ingredients

• three breakfast-cupfuls of flour
• two cupfuls of butter
• a heaped up tea-spoonful of the baking powder
• a tea-spoonful of salt
• the yolk of an egg

Method

1. 1

   Sift the flour and mix in the baking powder.

2. 2

   Form a ring with the flour, add the egg yolk and salt in the center, and gradually work in iced water until a smooth dough forms.

3. 3

   Chill, roll out, place butter on it, wrap the dough, and roll it thin.

4. 4

   Repeat the cooling process between each double turn.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 149. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three breakfast-cupfuls of flour, carefully sifted, and two cupfuls of butter. Choose a cool place to work PASTRY-MAKING, ET CETERA. 265 in, see that the flour is good and dry, the butter firm and free from moisture, and fill two shallow baking-tins with broken ice. Put the flour on a cool sla,b, mixing into it a heaped up tea-spoonful of the baking powder ; when mixed, form the flour in a, ring, as it were, and in the centre throw the yolk of an egg and a tea-spoonful of salt

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