Sweet buttery tart pastry
Sweet buttery tart pastry recipe in the pie category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 2/3 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup very fine granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 10 tablespoons sweet butter, chilled
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Recipe method:
- In a large mixing bowl, sift the flour, sugar and salt.
- Add the chilled butter and cut in with a pastry blender, to resemble coarse meal. You can also rub the butter and the dry ingredients together to achieve the same effect.
- Stir egg yolks, vanilla extract and water together in a small bowl and add it to the flour mixture, blending in with a fork.
- Shape sough into a ball, working quickly.
- Place the ball of dough on a pastry board.
- With the heel of your hand, push about 1/4 cup of dough away from you into a 6 to 8 inches thin streak of dough.
- Repeat until all the dough has been smeared.
- Scrape dough together. Reform a ball, wrap in wax paper and chill for 2 to 3 hours.
- Roll our dough between 2 sheets of wax paper, or a floured pastry cloth and a floured cloth cover on your rolling pin, into a round large enough to line your pan.
- Work quickly so that the dough does not become too sticky.
- Line either an 8 or 9 inch false bottom tart pan with the dough, fitting it loosely into the pan and pressing it to fit all sides.
- Trim edges 3/4 inch outside top of pan and fold this edge over to the inside and press into place with your fingers. Chill.
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Line dough in the tart pan with a piece of aluminum foil or wax paper and fill it a little with rice or dried beans.
- Bake for 8 minutes. Remove foil and beans.
- Prick the bottom of the dough with a fork in several places.
- For a partially baked shell, return to oven for 3 to 4 minutes linger.
- For a fully baked shell, return for 8 to 10 minutes longer or until edges are a light brown.
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