Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Paramount Cooking

By Christine Manfield

Published 1995

  • About

The nature of puff pastry lies in its preparation, where the layers of butter and flour are multiplied through the process of repeated folding and rolling. With the application of heat, the air that has been trapped between the layers expands and the water evaporates, causing the layers to separate and push up. It is the most complicated pastry to make, temperature being as important as the resting time between turns; the surface of the dough must not be broken during the rolling process or