Pastry Made With Butter And Lard
To stuff with bacon.
Pastry made with butter and lard. Make it by hand or in a food processor for a quick easy shortcut. Gradually add ice water tossing with a fork until dough holds together when pressed. 43 Votes White vegetable shortening is a suitable vegetarian substitute for lard.
Start with a proportion of about 70 percent butter 30 percent lard. To dress or enrich with lard. Butters lower melting point absorbs more quickly into flour requiring colder pastry and quick.
Cut the butter and lard into cubes and add them to the flour. 1-14 cups all-purpose flour 14 teaspoons salt. Water is then mixed in to create a stiff but pliable dough.
Butter is traditional for puff pastry. Follow along for our Test Kitchens standard crust recipe. This lard and butter pie crust is light flaky and perfect for sweet or savory recipes.
Add the chunks of leaf lard and butter pieces. Other fats like lard can be used but the results will not be the same. You should end up with a crust that features the best of both fatsgorgeous flakes from.
Cut the fats in the flour using dough scrapers or a pastry blender until you get coarse crumbs. Peaches are starting to fill the grocery shelves and it fills me with a small pang of loss since we lost our old Reliance peach tree to the winter last year. Stir the flour and salt together in a large bowl.