Hot water pastry
Preparation Time: 1 hour
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Serves: Makes about 400 g
This crisp pastry is thicker than most, making it ideal to use for the base of pies and small pastries, such as jam tarts.
Ingredients
500ml (280 g) Snowflake self-raising flour
2ml salt
100g butter
100ml boiling water
Method
- Sift flour and salt together. Combine butter and boiling water and stir until butter has melted. Add mixture to dry ingredients and mix to a soft pastry.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Roll out pastry on a lightly floured surface to a thickness of about 3 mm.
- Use as instructed in chosen recipe and bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
