Sweet Pastry
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Ingredients
- 500 grams plain flour
- 100 grames icing sugar
- 250 grams butter
- 2 eggs
- 250ml milk
Accompaniment
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Description
simple method to make a pastry for desserts
Method
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1. Sieve the flour into a bowl
2. Add the icing sugar and mix together
3. Add the butter
4. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips. This will take a while but eventually your mixture should look like breadcrumbs.
5. Add the two eggs and milk gradually to bind the mixture together.
6. Make the dough into a ball and wrap in the clingfilm. Leave this in the fridge for about 15 minutes
This type of pastry is good for sweet things like jam tarts and puddings.
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I followed this recipe and I found the dough very wet and sticky, I needed to add another 100g plain flour