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SIMPLE FLAKY PASTRY DOUGH
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Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour, plus up to ½ cup for rolling
- 2 tbsp. sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 8 oz. (2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into ½ inch pieces
- ½ cup ice cold water
Steps
- Blend dry ingredients together in the bowl of a food processor.
- Add butter in two batches, pulsing quickly in between each batch until small pea-sized pieces are formed.
- Add ¼ cup ice cold water all at once, pulse quickly, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time until dough begins to form a ball.
- Flour your rolling surface using a ¼ cup flour, turn dough out onto it. Roll dough into a rough rectangle using as much additional flour as necessary to keep it from sticking, being careful to still leave visible chunks of butter, this is what makes the dough flaky.
- Fold both sides of rectangle in toward the center, using a large metal spatula or dough scraper if necessary, then fold dough in half top to bottom, forming a square, roll dough to combine layers, adding more flour as necessary to keep dough from sticking.
- Pat dough back into a square, divide into 8 pieces, wrap in plastic and cool in refrigerator for 20 minutes.