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Very good Puff-paste
From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883
Serves 3
Brushing with egg white helps the paste rise.
Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 305. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Very good Puff-paste. — To every pound of flour allow one pound of butter, and not quite a half-pint of water. Carefully weigh the flour and butter, and have the exact proportion ; squeeze the butter well to extract the water from it, and afterward wring it in a clean cloth, that no moisture may remain. Sift the flour ; see that it is perfectly dry, and proceed in the following manner to make the paste, using a very clean paste-board and rolling-pin : Supposing the quan- tity to be one pound of flour
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