Thursday, 4 December 2025

visual recipe: mums flaky pastry - 485g - rough puff pastry

85g lard & 85g butter

225g plain flour

combine the fats w/ a knife or fork

put flour into fP w/ dough blade add a quarter of the fat and blend to bread crumb stage

then add water  - 25-50% of weight of flour -  until . . .

 . . . the dough comes together

dough ready to add fat

we want fat between the folds!

roll the pastry into an oblong and dab two thirds w/ fat

fold pastry in - roll it back to the same size oblong as before

repeat . .

 . . . until you're out of fat

 and do it one last time without fat

 flaky pastry ready - place in fridge until needed.

mums flaky pastry - thanks mum!! : )

 

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