Chopped Paste

Chopped Paste

Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2/3 cup butter
2 tablespoons lard
1/2 teaspoon salt

Directions:
Cold water
Wash butter. Mix salt with flour, put in chopping tray, add lard and butter, and chop until well
mixed. Moisten to a dough with cold water. Toss on floured cloth (Magic Cover), pat, and roll
out. Fold so as to make three layers, turn half−way round, pat, and roll out; repeat. Should the
butter be too hard, it will not mix readily with the flour, in which case the result will be a
tough
crust. Omit lard, and use all butter, if preferred.
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Quick Paste
11/2 cups flour
Chapter XXVII − PASTRY 536
The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
1/4 cup lard, crisco, or
cottolene
3/4 teaspoon salt
Cold water
Mix salt with flour, cut in shortening with knife. Moisten to dough with cold water. Toss on
floured board, pat, roll out, and roll up like a jelly roll. Use one−third cup of shortening if a
richer
paste is desired.
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Paste with Lard