Pastry With No Trans Fat - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    1 cup cold butter, cubed
    1/3 cup ice water (or more)
Preparation
    Whisk flour with salt in a large bowl.
    Using pastry blender or 2 knives, cut in butter until in coarse crumbs with a few larger pieces.
    Stirring briskly with a fork, drizzle ice waterover flour mixture until pastry holds together, sprinkling dry spots with more water, if necessary, 1 tbsp at a time.
    Divide pastry in half, pressing into discs.
    On generously floured surface, roll 1 disc out to a scant 1/4 inch thickness.
    Roll around rolling pin; unroll over 9 inch pie plate, gently pressing dough to fit.
    Trim, leaving 3/4 inch overhang.
    Roll out remaining pastry for top to a scant 1/4 inch thickness& transfer to a rimless baking sheet.
    Refrigerate pie shell& pastry top until firm, about an hour.
    Use for your favourite summer fruit pie.

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