Tart Pastry

Name: Tart Pastry
Yield: Makes One 9- to 10- Inch Round Tart Shell, ¼-Inch Thick
Ingredients: ¼ cup cold water; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ cup sugar; 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional as needed; ½ pound unsalted butter, cut in small pieces; Flour for dusting

Preparation info

Makes
One
9- to 10- Inch Round Tart Shell Thick

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Jeremiah Tower Cooks

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 2002

About

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour, plus additional as needed
¼ cup sugar
½

Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Combine the 2 cups of flour with the sugar and salt in a bowl. Mix the butter quickly into the flour by hand or with the paddle attachment of a mixer until the butter is in small pieces, the size of corn kernels. Add the water and blend together, gathering the mass into a ball. Wrap the dough in plasti