Cornflour Shortcrust Pastry

Name: Cornflour Shortcrust Pastry
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon baking powder; squeeze of lemon juice; ¼ pound butter; 1 egg yolk, mixed with a little milk or water; 3 ounces cornflour; 1-2 ounces castor sugar; ¼ pound plain flour

Appears in

The Robert Carrier Cookbook

By Robert Carrier

Published 1965

About

Ingredients

3 ounces cornflour
¼ pound plain flour
1-2 ounces

Pastry
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Sift cornflour, flour, sugar and baking powder into a mixing bowl. Add lemon juice and butter; cover well with the flour and rub ingredients together lightly with the tips of the fingers until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. While rubbing, keep lifting the flour well up in the bowl, so that air may mix with it and the butter is not made too soft.

When pastry is mixed, make a wel