What to make with shortcrust pastry

With shortcrust pastry, think quiches, pies, galettes and pasties. This simple, unsweetened pastry lends itself to recipes sweet and savoury – although for the sweeter recipes see our collection for pâte sucrée (sweet shortcrust). Recipes using sweet shortcrust can usually be made using plain shortcrust if you want to dial down the sweetness levels. Very simple to prepare, key with shortcrust is to handle the pastry as little as possible, to retain a ‘short’, tender, buttery texture. Too much handling will make the result tough. But get it right and the homemade version makes your home-bakes far more delicious. The possibilities are limitless.