Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot water pastry. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Preparation In a large bowl stir together flour and salt and make a well in center. Place the lard and water together in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Sieve the flour into a large bowl with the salt.
Hot water pastry is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Hot water pastry is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have hot water pastry using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot water pastry:
- Make ready 2 cup all-purpose flour
- Make ready 1 cup hot water
- Get 1/2 cup of ANY kind of fat
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 extra flour for kneading
- Take utensils
- Prepare 1 Mixing bowl
- Prepare 1 your hands
- Prepare 1 cutting board or counter top
- Take 1 coffee pot or stove top
This hot water pastry is really easy to make and we. Hot water crust can handle deep-dish like this. My fellow Americans, I There's a reason the Brits love hot water crust pastry. This dough has so many checks in its "pro".
Instructions to make Hot water pastry:
- Sift flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl
- Now, you can EITHER 1) heat your fat and water to boiling on the stove OR 2) Run your water through a clean coffee maker and melt your fat in the microwave. Either way is fine as long as they're boiling hot for the next step
- Move fast but be safe! Dump your hot fat and boiling water into your dry ingredients and combine until a soft dough forms
- Let it rest until its cool enough to handle safely, then knead until it stiffens up, I usually rest it 10 minutes or so then knead it just until stiff (use a lightly floured surface obviously)
- Now you can either use it immediately or you can wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for up to 2 days. Just take it out, roll it or shape it however you wish and stuff it!
- Bake according to your recipe, it blind bakes well too provided you dock it
- This makes enough for 2 9" pie crusts or 1 13x9" pan (bottom only) I don't usually mature it and you can use any kind of fat: butter, lard, shortening, I've even used hamburger grease straight from the pan. You can also season it with various seasonings or spices instead of salt. It makes a nice flaky pastry that is also quite sturdy if you wish to mold your pie instead of using a pan
Hot water crust pastry is traditionally used for raised pies. It is an unusual pastry, similar to choux Put the water into a medium saucepan. Ruby bakes: This hot-water crust is a versatile beast and great for pasties and pies. Well, hot water crust pastry is made with boiling water and melted fat, you get your hands right in there and knead it, and then you mold it as if it was play-doh! It really can put some childish fun in. 'Warning: contains tantalising graphic depictions of meat' - Esquire 'This is a tome to splatter through constant use' - Harper's Bazaar Tim Hayward's Food DIY - the first comprehensive manual for the DIY.
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