Plain Paste Recipe

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Ingredients for Plain Paste
  • 1½ cups flour
  • ¼ cup shortening
  • ¼ cup butter

Instructions
  1. 1/2 teaspoon salt.
  2. Cold water
  3. Wash butter, pat, and form in circular piece.
  4. Add salt to flour, and work in shortening with tips of fingers or case knife.
  5. Moisten to dough with cold water; ice-water is not an essential, but is desirable in summer.
  6. Toss on board dredged sparingly with flour, pat, and roll out; fold in butter as for puff paste, pat, and roll out.
  7. Fold so as to make three layers, turn half-way round, pat, and roll out; repeat.
  8. The pastry may be used at once; if not, fold in cheese-cloth, put in covered tin, and keep in cold place, but never in direct contact with ice.
  9. Plain paste requires a moderate oven.
  10. This is superior paste.

 




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