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11/03/2010

Basic Recipe - Short Crust pastry

Ingredients £0.40

225 g (8 oz) Plain Flour
pinch salt
50 g (2 oz) lard
50 g (2 oz) Butter
cold water to mix, about 30 ml (approx. 2 tbsp.)
25 g (1 oz) caster sugar if sweet pastry is required.

Method
1 Mix flour and salt in basin, rub in fat.
2 Using your hand like a claw stir, mix with cold water to form a stiff dough.
3 Turn dough on to a floured surface and knead lightly, wrap in cling film and set aside in the fridge for roughly 30 minutes.
4 Roll out and use as required.

NB 1 Self raising flour may be used. the pastry will have a more cake-like texture.
2 All lard can be used in savoury pies and will bring the cost down to £0.28