Shortcrust Pastry

Shortcrust is a basic pastry for cooking and baking. If you would like to have some savory foods, you can use it on Quiche, Tart, or Meat Pie. Or, if you want to have some sweet things, it can be used on different kinds of fruit tarts, egg custard pie, apple pie. Homemade shortcrust pastry is very easy and simple. And it is definitely more delicious than frozen one.

 

Oven Temperature Setting: 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4

Baking Time: Around 20 minutes
Recipe

 

 

Steps of Shortcrust Pastry

(1) Place flour, sugar, and salt in a big bowl. Mix all ingredients well

(2) Add butter into the bowl. Rub butter into the flour. It will be crumble-like

(3) Add water into the mixture. Lightly knead it into a ball.

(4) Put it into a food storage and leave in the fridge for around 30 minutes.

(5) Move the dough to a working table with light flour. Roll it into a round shape, around 0.5 cm.

(6) Place it over the top of the baking tray. Line it with the baking pray. Use a fork to poke some holes on the pastry. And then brush some whisked egg over the top of pastry.

(7) Cover pastry with baking stone and send it to the pre-heat oven at 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4 around 10 minutes. Then, get rid of baking stones and bake another 10 minutes until the top turns golden.

(Selena’s Kitchen Talk: I am lazy so that I will leave it in the freezer around 20 minutes. Then, you don’t need to cover the pastry with baking stone. And it takes around 20 minutes to turn the top into golden.)