Processor Puff-Pastry

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

  • About

Having discovered the world’s most wonderful and hysterically easy Danish pastry, it occurred to me that the principle would surely apply to the un-yeasted version, that is to say, puff pastry. I tried it: it worked.

Ingredients

  • 250 g strong white flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 250 g c

Method

Pulse the flour and salt together in the processor, then add the cold butter and pulse 3–4 times; the pieces of butter should still be visible. Turn out into a large bowl and add a squeeze of lemon juice and enough iced water to bind the pastry. Wrap in clingfilm and rest in the fridge for half an hour.

Dust a surface with flour, roll the pastry out into a long rectangle, and fold in th