My pastry chef says that this recipe makes a very maleable, easy-to-handle dough. It is basically a cheating approach to a more traditional French pâté sucrée.
Planning
| serves: | n/a |
| preparation time: | 10 mins |
| cooking time: | n/a |
Ingredients
- 175g plain flour
- pinch salt
- 50g icing sugar
- 100g chilled butter, cut into pieces
- 1 egg yolk
- 1-1½ tsp cold water
Method
Sift the flour, salt and icing sugar into a food processor/mixing bowl. Add the chilled butter and blitz/work together to the fine breadcrumb stage. Stir in the egg yolk and sufficient water for the mixture to start coming together into a ball.
Turn it out onto a floured surface and kneed it briefly until smooth. Rest the dough for about 30 mins in the fridge before using it as needed.
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