Butterflies

Name: Butterflies
Yield: Makes 18 to 20
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Sugar; ½ recipe Basic Puff Pastry

Preparation info

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Published 1965

Pastry has many buttery, delicate, crisp layers—immeasurably thin

Ingredients

Roll chilled pastry on board lightly sprinkled with sugar (granulated), to make rectangle ¼" thick. Fold in half. Sprinkle with more sugar and roll again into rectangle ⅛" thick.
Trim pastry edges straight with sharp knife. Do not use a sawing motion; make a straight, clean, swift cut. Cut pastry into quarters.
Sprinkle the quarters lightly with cold wa