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Puff pastry is a type of traditional French pastry which is made by repeatedly folding a dough around a block of butter. When the pastry cooks, steam trapped inside the dough separates the folded layers, creating a puffy, flaky finished product.

Yields: 500 grams
Ingredients
  • 250 g cake flour

  • 2 ml salt

  • 12.5 ml lard

  • 125 ml iced water mixed with 10 ml brandy

  • 250 g butter, chilled and grated

Method

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  • Puff Pastry Recipe Step 1

    Step 1 Sift flour and salt together twice, then rub in lard with fingertips.

  • Puff Pastry Recipe Step 2

    Step 2 Using a knife, cut iced water mixed with brandy into flour.

  • Puff Pastry Recipe Step 3

    Step 3 Knead dough lightly on a floured surface until smooth and elastic and small bubbles form on surface. Work lightly and quickly to keep dough cold.

  • Puff Pastry Recipe Step 4

    Step 4 Roll dough out to 5-10 mm thick. Place the butter (straight from the fridge) in the middle of the dough. Fold dough over from corners, envelope fashion.

  • Puff Pastry Recipe Step 5

    Step 5 Roll out dough and repeat twice more. Wrap dough in waxed paper and chill in refrigerator before use.

Tips
  1. All ingredients must be kept as cold as possible.

  2. If dough becomes too sticky, refrigerate it for minutes.

  3. Take care not to scorch pastry, as it will taste bitter.

  4. Bake at 230-260°C. Reduce temperature to 200°C after 5-10 minutes.

Cuisine: Global

Category: Baking

  • Posted20-Nov-2009
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