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Butter Pastry Dough Recipe

Butter Pastry Dough Recipe Ingredients: wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched salt, table butter, without salt water, bottled, generic Directions: In a large bowl whisk together flour and salt and with a pastry...

Butter Pastry Dough Recipe

Ingredients:
wheat flour, white, all-purpose, unenriched
salt, table
butter, without salt
water, bottled, generic

Directions:
In a large bowl whisk together flour and salt and with a pastry blender or possibly fingertips blend in butter till mix resembles coarse meal.
Add in ice water, 1 Tbsp.
at a time, tossing with a fork to incorporate, till mix begins to create a dough.
On a work surface smear dough in 3 or possibly 4 forward motions with heel of hand to slightly develop gluten in flour and make dough easier to work with.
Form dough into a ball and flatten to create a disk.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate1 hour.
Pastry dough may be made 1 week ahead and chilled.
This recipe yields sufficient dough for a single-crust 12-inch tart.