You can vary the flour according to what you are making. For instance - if the pastry is for an apple shortcake, make the entire 500g self-raising flour, rather than plain flour, to give a nice light ...

Shortcrust pastry, when you have a good recipe, is one of the simplest and quickest pastries to make. Here, I've given lots of tips and direction about how to use and cook your pastry. This sweet sage ...

Perfect for baking any kind of tart or sweet pies, this shortcrust pastry holds its shape very well during baking! In a bowl, combine the softened butter, icing sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, and ...

Tarts look fancy, but they all start with the same thing: a good, sweet shortcrust pastry shell. This easy shortcrust tart dough, also known as pâte sucrée, bakes into a buttery, shortbread-style ...

Put the flour and butter in a food processor and blitz to breadcrumbs. If using your hands, rub the butter and flour together until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the egg yolks (and if ...

As a result of the pandemic, I spent the best part of 2021 in Italy at my parent's house in Lombardy. The months spent in lockdown turned into an incredible food journey that allowed me to reconnect ...

Sweet and savoury shortcrust pastry share the same basic principles, but the ingredients vary. There is no sugar or egg in the basic savoury shortcrust recipe which is included here. It is made with ...

What makes this subject so fascinating is that all pastries use the same basic ingredients: flour, fat, salt and liquid. It is the different proportions of these ingredients and the techniques ...

From pie dough and puff pastry to pâte sucrée and pâte à choux, read on to learn the differences between the most common ...

A very secret sweet biscuit pastry, developed and tweaked over the years. You can vary the flour according to what you are making. For instance - if the pastry is for an apple shortcake, make the ...

Add the salt to the sieved flour and stir them together in a large bowl. Add the small cubes of butter and rub them into the flour until it looks like rough breadcrumbs. Stir the sugar into the beaten ...