Boiled Suet Pastry
Ingredients
Directions
In a bowl, mix the flour and suet together well.
Add the salt and baking powder, then mix in enough cold water to form a firm dough.
Turn the dough onto a floured board and knead it lightly.
Roll out the dough lightly.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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