Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, short crust pastry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

A quick and easy recipe for shortcrust pastry. You can make it by hand or in a food processor. PROPORTIONS To make more or less, remember the proportions - half fat to flour - and don't add too much water or the pastry will be hard.

Short crust pastry is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Short crust pastry is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have short crust pastry using 4 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Short crust pastry:

1. Prepare flour
2. Get gbutter
3. Get cold water
4. Make ready fruits

It calls for just four ingredients—flour, fat, salt, and water—and the ratio of flour to fat is usually two to one. Shortcrust pastry is easy to make and can be prepared either by hand or with a food processor. Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche or pie. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie.

Steps to make Short crust pastry:

1. Rub in the flour and butter..
2. Add water and mix.
3. Roll the dough and cut into circles
4. Oil the muffin tins andput the circles in it…
5. Perforate the circles and place greese prove paper and put a kitchen stone on it..
6. Take it to oven for few minutes…
7. Brush them with apricot jamand arrange the fruits on it…
8. Garnish with cream

Shortcrust pastry recipes usually call for twice as much flour as fat by weight. Yes, blind baking shortcrust pastry is a must. It will stop the bottom of the pie from becoming soggy and reduce shrinkage. Depending on the type of pie you are making, the pie crust can be partially or fully baked. The case for shortcrust - not fashionable, not clever, not over-rich, but for my money the humble shortcrust is one of the best pastries of all.

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