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Flaky Cream-Pastry Crust

Source of Recipe

PAZ


List of Ingredients

1-1/3 cups Bleached all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. Salt
1/8 tsp. Baking powder
1/2 cup Unsalted butter, cut into pieces and chilled
1/4 cup Heavy cream



Recipe

• Place flour, salt and baking powder in medium-size bowl in freezer to chill for about 15 minutes.
• Remove from freezer; rub with fingers or use pastry blender to mix butter into flour mixture until it resembles coarse meal. Return to freezer 10 minutes, until butter is firm.
• After sprinkling mixture with cream, toss lightly with fork or spatula until the mixture starts to come together.
• Gather dough into a ball.
• Flatten into disk, wrap and chill 1 hour.