Recipes tagged with: pastry

Here is a recipe for quick flaky pastry also known as rough puff pastry. Freezing the butter before grating helps keep the pastry easier to work and the pastry nice and light. Sausage rolls and cheese straws are my favourite use for this pastry although my Grandma used to make the most amazing apricot pie.

Shortcrust pastry is very versatile and can be used for all types of savoury and sweet pies. Using lard gives a lovely crisp pastry and is also very economical at around a quarter of the price of butter.  Don't overwork the dough. Light, cold fingers are supposed to make the best short crust pastry.

A delicious vegetarian pie which can be served with a dill flavoured béchamel sauce. Use shortcrust pastry or make a quick puff pastry topped pie (buy ready rolled puff pastry) Cook the cabbage filling, place in a dish and top with a puff pastry lid.  Creme fraiche can be added to the pie filling for a creamier finish.

A sweet pastry (pate sucree) used to line sweet flan cases for desserts. Roll as thin as you can! Some Chefs swear by rolling the pastry between two sheets of clingfilm to get it as thin as possible.