Butter is what makes pastry "short" (or, "light and crumbly"). It also adds the characteristic "richness". In puff pastry and flaky pastry, butter is wholly responsible for the leavening effect.
When you think about it, a shortcrust pastry recipe, minus the butter is essentially the recipe for a water biscuit/cracker. Comparing these two things may help you see what difference butter has on a recipe.
Butter is what makes the crust flakey, instead of hard.
you mix flour, water and margarine/butter together. put it in the pastry design you want cook it then you get a pastry!
You can use a pastry cutter, knife and fork or pastry blender.
the pastry has as much flour inside it asa it does butter. e.g. if you had 20g of flour you would also have to put 20g of butter into the mixture to form the pastry.
To give the pastry substance and body.
zeepole is an italian pastry like desert with is extremly tasty with peanut butter
Flour is mixed with butter and other ingredients when making pastry. Individual grains of flour are too small to consider whether they are "coated in butter" in that process.
The function of lard in pastries is to make your pastry nice and flaky.If a recipe tells you to use only lard, use half lard and half butter. You won't be disappointed. :)
To brush oil or melted butter
when they roll out the pastry they spread a layer of peanut butter onto the pastry then cut the amount they need to make a pretzel and roll it into the shape. Then when they cook it ta- DA! the peanut butter is inside a pretzel
Shortcrust pastry is classically made without raising agents - just plain flour, butter, salt and water.
The traditional ingredients used in making shu pastry are flour, butter, water, and eggs.