Cold Paste for Dish Pies

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
Source
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
for the paste
Instructions (11)
  1. Take a pound of fine flour.
  2. Rub into it half a pound of butter.
  3. Beat the yolks of two eggs.
  4. Add enough water to the beaten egg yolks to make a stiff paste.
  5. Roll out the paste.
  6. Put the butter on the rolled paste in thin pieces.
  7. Dust the butter with flour.
  8. Roll up the paste tightly.
  9. Repeat the process of adding butter, dusting with flour, and rolling up tightly for a total of three times.
  10. Roll out the paste pretty thin.
  11. Bake it in a quick oven.
Original Text
To make a cold Paste for Dish PIES. TAKE a pound of fine flour, rub into it half a pound of butter, beat the yolks of two eggs, put them into as much water as will make it a stiff paste, roll it out, then put your butter on in thin pieces, dust it with flour, roll it up tight, when you have done it so for three times, roll it out pretty thin, and bake it in a quick oven.
Notes
—