Breast of Veal in Pastry

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Cookbook Library: Four Centuries of the Cooks, Writers, and Recipes That Made the Modern Cookbook

By Anne Willan

Published 2012

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Ingredients

  • 1 whole breast of veal, about 8 pounds (3.6 kg) with the bones

Method

To Make the Pastry Dough

Sift together the flour and the salt, if using, into a large bowl. Add the pieces of butter and cut them into the flour using a table knife in each hand. When cut as small as possible, rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips to form coarse crumbs, taking care not to overwork it. Make a well in the center. In a small bowl,