Short Pastry

Ingredients

• 8 oz. flour
• \ teaspoonful of baking powder
• 4 oz. shortening
• cold water

Method

1. 1

   Rub shortening into flour, add baking powder and mix to a stiff paste with cold water.

2. 2

   Roll out and use.

3. 3

   One teaspoonful of sugar may be added if for a sweet dish.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Berridge House recipe book (1910), page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

short pastry, 2 oz. cold meat, \ oz. butter, seasoning, l oz. flour, egg and crumbs. \ gill of stock, Method. — Make sauce, add chopped meat and seasonings. Spread on a plate till cold 8o COOKERY RECIPES pastry out very thinly. Cut in rounds. Place a teaspoonful of mixture on each. Wet edges and fold over. Press together egg crumb and fry. Garnish with fried parsley. LESSON XIV Veal and Ham Pie 1 lb. fillet of veal, salt and pepper, 2 oz. ham or bacon, grated lemon rind, i hard-boiled egg, white stock. a little ground mace, Method. — Cut the veal into neat pieces. Place alternate layers of veal and ham in pie-dish, seasoning each. Cut egg into slices and arrange it on top. Add one tablespoonful of stock. Cut a rim of pastry and place it round the wetted edge of the pie-dish (No. 6). Wet edge and cover pie with flaky pastry. Flake up edges. Decorate with leaves and brush with egg and bake in a quick oven for an hour and a half, reducing the heat and covering the pie with paper after the first half-hour, when the pastry should be risen and a golden colour. Add more stock. Flaky Pastry \ lb. flour, squeeze of lemon-juice, 6 oz. lard and butter pinch of salt, or margarine, cold water. Method. — Add salt to Hour. Rub in one ounce of the shortening. Add lemon juice to the water and mix to an elastic paste. Roll out into a long strip. Divide shortening into three. SECOND COURSE 81 Place one portion on in pats, covering two-thirds of the strip. Fold in three. Turn open ends to and from you. Roll out. Repeat till all the shortening is used up. Set in a cold place for half an hour. Roll and fold twice more and use. Sausage Rolls Half a pound of sausages. Six ounces flaky pastry. Boil sausages two minutes. Cool and remove skins. Roll pastry into a square. Cut into oblong pieces. Place sausage on one side, fold over, flake edges, mark top, brush with egg, bake half an hour in hot oven. Cold Meat Patties £ lb. cold meat, i oz. breadcrumbs, about 4 tablespoonsful of stock, salt and pepper, \ a small onion (par- boiled). \ lb. flaky pastry, Method. — Chop the meat and onion finely. Soak the crumbs in the stock. Mix the meat, onion and crumbs together. Season. Line small patty tins with flaky pastry. Place a spoonful of mixture into each. Wet the edges. Cover with pastry. Flake up edges. Bake in a quick oven twenty to thirty minutes. G 82 COOKERY RECIPES LESSON XV Raised Pies * Pastry f lb. flour, about \ pint of milk £ lb. lard, and water, salt, Method. — Add salt to flour. Place lard, milk and water in a pan, bring to boil. Stir into flour and knead till quite smooth. Set aside until cool enough to work (about ten minutes). Grease a raised pie mould, roll pastry out. Cut an oval piece for top and bottom, also strip to line sides. Fit in strip, pressing pastry well against sides of tin and join with a little water. Wet edges and fit a piece in the bottom. Fill pie with pork. Cover and decorate with leaves. Bake about two hours or till pork is tender in a very hot oven, lowering the heat when the pastry is golden brown. Pour in jellied stock when cooked. Meat i lb. pork, l teaspoonful of sage, i teaspoonful of salt, if liked. pepper, Method. — Cut the meat into small pieces or mince, season, simmer, skin and bone in water or stock and use to pour into pies when cooked. Small Pork Pies The above quantity will make three or four. The pastry should be divided into four, a small SECOND COURSE 83 piece of each reserved for the tops. Shape the remaining paste with the hand into a hollow pie. Fill with meat prepared as above, wet edges, place on cover, roll out any trimmings, cut into stars, make a hole in centre of each, and decorate. Place on a greased tin and bake in a quick oven for about an hour or an hour and a half till pork is tender. Fill up with stock. Note. — If the pastiy cracks in working, it is too cold. If very soft it is too warm. LESSON XVI Short Pastry 8 oz. flour, \ teaspoonful of 4 oz. shortening

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