Sour Cream Pastry - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (not baking soda)
1/2 cup shortening, chilled
1/4 cup sour cream
1 egg, beaten

Preparation

Pulse flour, salt and baking powder in food processor.
Add shortening. Pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal.
Stir together sour cream and egg; pour all at once into flour and pulse until it just comes together.
Dump out onto wax paper. Gather into a disk, wrap in the wax paper and chill at least 20 minutes.
Cut into two pieces, rewrap one and return it to the refrigerator.
Roll on a lightly floured surface.
Fill and bake according to filling recipe.