Short Crust Pastry for Tarts
"Posted for ZWT6 to be made with Quarktorte."
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 300 g plain white flour (no self-raising flour)
- 1 teaspoon salt (you can add 1/2 Tsp more if you like to taste the salt)
- 150 g unsalted butter (or 100 g unsalted butter and 50 g lard)
- water
directions
- Sift the flour and salt into a bowl/bassin.
- Add butter and rub between the fingers until the mixture is flaky.
- Pour in water, gradually, while continuously cutting and stirring with a knife. Stop adding water when the dough is stiff. It should not be sticky or wet. Gather up into a soft ball.
- Dust your working area and rolling pin with flour and shape the pastry by rolling away from you and always turning the pastry around in order to achieve a round shape.
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Remarks:
- Always lift the flour out of the bowl while rubbing; it makes the butter/flour mixture airy.
- Be careful not to add too much water as the pastry should not be stick to the touch.
- While mixing the water to the flour/butter mixture never work the pastry like a bread dough, otherwise you would end up with a stiff, hard and elastic pastry.
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