Plain Pie or Flan Pastry

• 6 oz plain flour
• 1½ oz slightly salted butter
• 1½

Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl. Chop the butter and cooking fat into it with a knife and then rub it in, lifting your hands several inches above the bowl with each movement, so that the fat is cooled by the air as it falls into the bowl; this may sound farfetched but it really helps keep the pastry cool and therefore light. When it looks like fine breadcrumbs, carefully add water as you m