Short Paste

Ingredients

• a pound of flour
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a tablespoonful of powdered sugar
• half a pound of butter
• the yolks of 2 eggs
• rather more than half a pint of water or milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix flour, salt, and sugar.

2. 2

   Rub in butter, and make into a paste by stirring in water or milk; the yolks of eggs may be added.

3. 3

   Roll out once only, and handle lightly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from English and French cookery (1890) by Percy Lindley, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Short Paste. — Mix with a pound of flour \ a teaspoonful of salt and a tablespoonful of powdered sugar. Rub \ pound butter, or butter and lard, into the flour, and make it into a paste by stirring in rather more than \ pint of water or milk : the yolks of 2 eggs

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