Using Scraps of Dough

While all the pastry dough recipes in the previous pages are calculated to provide the right amount of dough for the tin size required, you may still accumulate some dough scraps after trimming a crust when it’s safely in its baking tin. If you have just a couple of tablespoons of dough scraps, you can reroll them and use a round or decorative cutter to make a few decorations for the top of a double-crusted pie. However, if you have a handful of scraps, use one of the procedures below to make some little treats from them.