Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, hot water pastry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hot water pastry is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Hot water pastry is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Preparation In a large bowl stir together flour and salt and make a well in center. Cut butter and shortening into bits and put into well. A bit of an oddball in pastry terms as the mixture has to be hot rather than cold.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hot water pastry using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot water pastry:
- Get 2 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 cup hot water
- Get 1/2 cup of ANY kind of fat
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 extra flour for kneading
- Prepare utensils
- Get 1 Mixing bowl
- Prepare 1 your hands
- Make ready 1 cutting board or counter top
- Make ready 1 coffee pot or stove top
My fellow Americans, I There's a reason the Brits love hot water crust pastry. This dough has so many checks in its "pro". Hot water crust pastry is traditionally used for raised pies. It is an unusual pastry, similar to choux Put the water into a medium saucepan.
Steps to make Hot water pastry:
- Sift flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl
- Now, you can EITHER 1) heat your fat and water to boiling on the stove OR 2) Run your water through a clean coffee maker and melt your fat in the microwave. Either way is fine as long as they're boiling hot for the next step
- Move fast but be safe! Dump your hot fat and boiling water into your dry ingredients and combine until a soft dough forms
- Let it rest until its cool enough to handle safely, then knead until it stiffens up, I usually rest it 10 minutes or so then knead it just until stiff (use a lightly floured surface obviously)
- Now you can either use it immediately or you can wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for up to 2 days. Just take it out, roll it or shape it however you wish and stuff it!
- Bake according to your recipe, it blind bakes well too provided you dock it
- This makes enough for 2 9" pie crusts or 1 13x9" pan (bottom only) I don't usually mature it and you can use any kind of fat: butter, lard, shortening, I've even used hamburger grease straight from the pan. You can also season it with various seasonings or spices instead of salt. It makes a nice flaky pastry that is also quite sturdy if you wish to mold your pie instead of using a pan
Ruby bakes: This hot-water crust is a versatile beast and great for pasties and pies. Try this easy, flaky and tender hot water pie crust recipe for a no-fail baking technique. In the first step, the hot water and milk combine with the shortening. It may seem like the ingredients will never. 'Warning: contains tantalising graphic depictions of meat' - Esquire 'This is a tome to splatter through constant use' - Harper's Bazaar Tim Hayward's Food DIY - the first comprehensive manual for the DIY. Well, hot water crust pastry is made with boiling water and melted fat, you get your hands right in there and knead it, and then you mold it as if it was play-doh!
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