Cheese Pastry

Name: Cheese Pastry
Cuisine: Scottish
Ingredients: 1 tsp dry mustard powder; 150 g plain flour; 75 g fridge-cold butter; 75 g mature Cheddar, grated; salt and freshly ground black pepper; a dash of Tabasco; salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Makes
1 x 22
cm

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

A delicious, crisp pastry to use instead of savoury pastry in any of our tarts. Use a good, strong, vintage Cheddar for added flavour.

Ingredients

75 g fridge-cold butter
75 g mature Cheddar, grated
1 tsp

United Kingdom
Pie
Vegetarian
Scotland

Method

In a food processor, blitz together the butter, Cheddar, mustard powder, flour, Tabasco and a pinch each of salt and freshly ground black pepper until it just comes together as a dough.
Wrap in cling film and rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat your oven to