Swept Short Pastry

Name: Swept Short Pastry
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Makes enough for a 20 cm/8 in tin
Ingredients: 1 egg; 25 g/1 oz/¼ cup ground almonds; grated zest of ½ blood orange; 65 g/2¼ oz/heaped ½ cup icing (confectioners’) sugar; 90 g/3¼ oz unsalted butter, softened; a pinch of salt; 175 g/6 oz/heaped 1⅓ cups plain (all-purpose) flour

Preparation info

Makes enough for a
20 cm
tin

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

French Countryside Cooking

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2021

About

Ingredients

grated zest of ½ blood orange
90 g/3¼ oz unsalted butte

Pastry
Vegan

Method

Beat together the orange zest, butter, salt, sugar, ground almonds and egg in a bowl until light and fluffy, then sift in the flour and fold through. As soon as the dough is formed, stop! You don’t want to work this pastry at all.
Wrap the pastry in cling film (plastic wrap) and put in the refrigerator for 20 minutes, then bake as directed in the recipe.