Sweet Hot Butter Crust Pastry

This method is rather similar to hot-water crust pastry. I tried it out as an experiment years ago and have used it ever since. This pastry must be the easiest of all pastries to make, and produces a crisp, biscuit-like crust, ideal to hold a filling. It can be baked blind without being weighted down and doesn’t shrink during baking although it is best to