Butter Pastry Dough

Title:
Butter Pastry Dough

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Morning,
America




Ingredients:





     2 c  All-purpose flour


 1 1/2 ts Salt


   3/4 c  Cold unsalted butter; cut


          -into bits


     6 tb Ice water; up to 7






 In a large bowl whisk together flour and salt and with a pastry blender or


 fingertips blend in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add ice


 water, 1 tablespoon at a time, tossing with a fork to incorporate, until


 mixture begins to form a dough. On a work surface smear dough in 3 or 4


 forward motions with heel of hand to slightly develop gluten in flour and


 make dough easier to work with. Form dough into a ball and flatten to form


 a disk.Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill 1 hour. Pastry dough may be


 made 1 week ahead of time and chilled. Makes enough dough for a


 single-crust 12-inch tart.


 


 MC Formatted & Busted by Barb at Possum Kingdom on 3/17/98


 


 Recipe by: Gourmet magazine


 


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "abprice@wf.net" 
on Mar 17,


 1998