Puff pastry

Puff pastry

Pastry that has a lot of uses savoury and sweet

Ingredients

  • 1 kg Cake flour
  • 19 g Salt 
  • 750 g Butter
  • 63 g Cake flour

Method

  • Mix the butter with 63 g flour and refrigerate.
  • Press the butter into a slab about 1 cm thick.
  • Mix the 1 kg Flour, Salt and cold water to form a stiff but rollable dough.
  • Roll the pastry twice the sise of the butter and place the butter on one halve and fold over the remaining side of pastry.
  • Close the sides so that soft butter will not run out.
  • Roll the pastry to 2 cm thick rectangle. Fold 1/3 over the second third and the remaining piece also over. Now you should have 3 layers of pastry and butter.
  • Allow the pastry to rest 1 hour in refrigerator.
  • Turn the pastry 90º from the previos position and repeat the rolling process.
  • Allow to rest for 1 hour in refrigerator.
  • Repeat the rolling prosess before use.

Written by:  - 16 Jun, 2017  
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