You cut up the fat and rub it in with the tips of your fingers
Air could be added to a puff pastry by adding more flour, butter, salt, and water to create the air bubble. This is a good way to add dimension to your product.
no but you could
Pastry dough.
To obtain a flaky pastry. The hard fat (butter or lard) does not melt into the flour but creates many layers of fat separated by flour. These layers become flakes when the pastry is baked.
A pastry blender is used to incorporate fat into flour while still allowing lumps of the fat to remain. This allows the resulting baked good to develop layers where the fat melts during baking.
A pastry blender is used to incorporate fat into flour while still allowing lumps of the fat to remain. This allows the resulting baked good to develop layers where the fat melts during baking.
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Make the pastry using shortening, instead of lard.
Use a recipe book.
I would use Crisco instead. With it your pastry will be good.
Depending on the type of flour you are working with, as well as the recipe, using too much flour can make your pastry too dense, tough or chewy. For example, if you are making a basic butter/shortening pie crust using all-purpose flour -- if you use too much flour or knead the dough excessively, you over-develop the gluten and will wind up with a tough crust vs. a light, flaky pastry.
You can use short pastry to make biscuits and cheese twirls. The pastry is nice and crumbly and is great with cheese also try chocolate drizzled on top .To make cheese twirls mix in cheese with the pastry then shape it and bake the biscuit will have a cheesey tang to them.
Yes