Short Crust

Ingredients

• ½ lb. of flour
• 3 oz. of butter
• 2 oz. of white sugar
• a pinch of salt
• yolks of 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Rub into the flour the butter and the powdered loaf sugar; beat up the yolks of the eggs, the salt, and enough milk or water to make the flour into a paste; work the paste lightly, and roll it out thin.

2. 2

   If not wanted sweet, the sugar can be left out.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ideal cook book (1899) by Anne Clarke, page 117. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 lb. of flour, 1 lb. of butter, 1 egg, cold water. Sh AS btn ey ie 204 THE Dominion Cook Book. Mix the flour with a lump of butter the size of an egg, and — the egg to a very stiff paste with cold water; divide the butter into six equal parts, roll the paste and spread on one part of the butter, dredging it with flour; repeat until all the butter is rolled in. . Short Crust—Ingredients—¥% Ib. of flour, 3 oz. of butter, 2 oz. of white sugar, a pinch of salt, yolks of 3 eggs

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