Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, basic sweet shortcrust pastry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Basic shortcrust pastry is the easiest pastry to make, it is a versatile pastry suitable for sweet or savory dishes. Sometimes a sweet shortcrust pastry is needed, especially for desserts and sweet pies as it adds extra flavor and depth. A rich shortcrust pastry recipe is similar to basic shortcrust but has an egg and sugar added to it.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have basic sweet shortcrust pastry using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1. Make ready plain flour, sifted
2. Prepare cold unsalted butter, diced
3. Prepare pure icing sugar, sifted
4. Make ready salt
5. Take vanilla paste or extract
6. Get egg yolks
7. Prepare milk

While you could use a food processor or stand mixer to make. Basic sweet shortcrust pastry is a beautiful thing. It can be used for pies, tarts and pastries of all sorts. It seems though, that shortcrust pastry is sometimes feared, that it is too hard to make, too complicated, or some are afraid it won't turn out.

Steps to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1. In a food processor, process flour, sugar, salt and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and milk, pulse till the dough comes together.
2. Without overworking the dough, form dough into a ball and place in a clean bowl, then wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes to rest.
3. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Lightly grease a 22cm loose-bottomed tart tin and line base with baking paper
4. Place pastry on a lightly floured work surface or between two parchment papers. Using a lightly dusted rolling pin, start to evenly flatten roll dough, keeping it as round and neat as possible around the edges making an indent in dough at quarter turns. With even pressure, turn and lift pastry in a clockwise direction, rolling to a thickness of approximately 3mm.
5. Carefully line the tart tin with the pastry, and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
6. Blind bake the pastry for 15 mins, remove the baking beans from the tart and bake for a further 10 mins. Remove tart from oven, allow to cool completely before filling.

The best pastry to use for sweet desserts like pies, tarts, tortes and tartlets etc.. 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. If other dry ingredients are included in the recipe, add them at the same time as the salt. This recipe provides the wrapping or covering for many pies and tarts, both sweet and savoury. Follow individual recipe instructions for methods of use and baking.

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