Cheese Shortcrust Pastry

• 4 oz (100 g) plain flour
• pinch of salt

Sift the flour, salt and cayenne pepper 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 into the flour with the fingertips, allowing the ingredients to fall back into the bowl between fingertips. Continue until fat is evenly blended and mixture looks like breadcrumbs. Th