Buttery Tart Shells(Makes 2.) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1/2 c. sifted flour
    1/8 tsp. salt
    3 Tbsp. butter
    1 Tbsp. ice water
Preparation
    Blend flour and salt in a medium bowl.
    With pastry blender or 2 knives, cut butter into flour until mixture resembles cornmeal. Sprinkle with ice water and quickly mix with a fork until dough lumps together.
    Press together and divide in half.
    Shape each half into a ball; pat out on a floured surface.
    Roll out to a 7 inch circle.
    Fit each circle into a 4 inch tart pan.
    Trim pastry 1/2 inch from rim.
    Moisten underside of overhanging pastry and fold under to make double thickness.
    Crimp edge of crust with fork tines or fingers.

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