Old-Fashioned Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

Name: Old-Fashioned Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 237 milliliters good-quality cold butter, cut into small cubes; 2 larges free-range or organic eggs, beaten; 828 milliliters organic all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting; 237 milliliters icing sugar, sifted; 1 lemon, zested; 6 servings Splash milk

You can never have too many crust recipes, so give Old-Fashioned Sweet Shortcrust Pastry a try. One portion of this dish contains approximately 17g of protein, 41g of fat, and a total of 785 calories. This recipe serves 6. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. A mixture of splash milk, flour, free-range, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 50 minutes.

Instructions

Sift the flour from a height onto a clean work surface and sift the icing sugar over the top. Using your hands, work the cubes of butter into the flour and sugar by rubbing your thumbs against your fingers until you end up with a fine, crumbly mixture. This is the point where you can spike the mixture with interesting flavors, so mix in your lemon zest.

Ingredients you will need

Powdered Sugar

Lemon Zest

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Add the eggs and milk to the mixture and gently work it together until you have a ball of dough. Flour it lightly. Don't work the pastry too much at this stage or it will become elastic and chewy, not crumbly and short. Flour your work surface and place the dough on top. Pat it into a flat round, flour it lightly, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it into the refrigerator to rest for at least half an hour.

Ingredients you will need

Dough