Puff Pastry

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Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1 kg

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

  • About

A delicate, crisp pastry made up of many layers, puff is made with butter and dough, which is rolled and folded so that the butter becomes trapped between the layers, causing it to puff up as the layers separate. Making your own pastry is very rewarding, but you can substitute ready-made block or sheets of puff pastry if preferred.

Method

  1. Mix 500 g (1 lb 2 oz/2</