Sweet Pastry Dough
Serves: 5
Marley Adams
1 January 1970
Based on User reviews:
51
Spice
52
Sweetness
56
Sourness
42
mins
Prep time (avg)
4.1
Difficulty
Ingredients:
2.333333 cups
All-Purpose Flour1 cup
Sugar3 tsp
Salt1 large
Whole Egg1 large
Egg Yolk1 tsp
Vanilla1 tsp
Lemon Juice (fresh)Directions:
1
Cut butter into 1/2-inch cubes
2
In a bowl whisk together flour, sugar, and salt to taste
3
With your fingertips or a pastry blender blend together flour mixture and butter until mixture resembles coarse meal
4
In a small bowl with a fork lightly beat together whole egg, yolk, vanilla, and lemon juice and stir into flour mixture
5
Toss mixture with fork until egg mixture is absorbed
6
With your hands gently knead mixture in bowl until it comes together and forms a dough
7
Turn dough out onto a very lightly floured surface and knead 4 or 5 times
8
Form dough into a disk
9
Chill dough, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day
10
Cut butter into 1/2-inch cubes
11
In a bowl whisk together flour, sugar, and salt to taste
12
With your fingertips or a pastry blender blend together flour mixture and butter until mixture resembles coarse meal
13
In a small bowl with a fork lightly beat together whole egg, yolk, vanilla, and lemon juice and stir into flour mixture
14
Toss mixture with fork until egg mixture is absorbed
15
With your hands gently knead mixture in bowl until it comes together and forms a dough
16
Turn dough out onto a very lightly floured surface and knead 4 or 5 times
17
Form dough into a disk
18
Chill dough, wrapped in plastic wrap, at least 1 hour and up to 1 day