English Puff-Paste

• Flour, 2 lbs.
• little salt
• butter, 1 lb. 10 oz.

Break lightly into a couple of pounds of dried and sifted flour eight ounces of butter; add a pinch of salt, and sufficient cold water to make the paste; work it as quickly and as lightly as possible, until it is smooth and pliable, then level it with the paste-roller until it is three-quarters o