Shortcrust pastry

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

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Ingredients

  • 175 g (6 oz) flour
  • 75 g (3

Method

Put the flour into a cold bowl. Cut the butter and lard into pieces and put it in with the flour. Now keep slicing the butter and lard into the flour, with a small knife, until it is all cut up into small pieces. With cool fingertips rub the fat rapidly and lightly into the flour - do not rub it too much, it should still be in quite sizeable flakes. Stir in the water with a knife blade. When yo