Basic Shortcrust Pastry

• 4oz (100g) plain flour
• pinch of salt
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Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl. Using a palette knife, blend the butter and white cooking fat on a plate and add in pieces to the sifted flour. Pick up mixture in small handfuls and rub fat into the flour with the fingertips, allowing the ingredients to fall back into the bowl between the fingers. Continue until fat is evenly blended and mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. There sh