Rich Sweet Pastry Dough

Title:
Rich Sweet Pastry Dough

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Cooking




Ingredients:





     2 c  All purpose flour


   1/3 c  Sugar


   1/2 ts Salt


   1/2    Stick cold unsalted butter;


          -cut into bits


     6 lg Egg yolks






 In a bowl with a pastry blender or in a food processor blend or pulse


 together flour, sugar, and salt. Add butter and blend or pulse until


 mixture resembles coarse meal. Add yolks and, if blending by hand, stir


 until mixture forms a dough. If using a food processor pulse until mixture


 forms large clumps and with hands form mixture into 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. Chill dough, wrapped in


 plastic wrap, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day.


 


 Yield: Enough dough for an 11 to 12-inch tart


 


 Notes: Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine


 


 Recipe by: Cooking live Show #9017


 


 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #968 by "Angele and Jon Freeman"


 
on Dec 19, 1997