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Vol-au-vent Cases, for an Entrée

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Vol-au-vent Cases, for an Entrée

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix puff pastry with lemon juice.

  2. Roll the pastry into a square shape, ensuring even thickness.

  3. Give the pastry five and a half turns, allowing seven minutes between each turn.

  4. Before the last turn, brush the pastry with water or lemon juice.

  5. Roll out the pastry to the desired thickness before cutting.

  6. Wet one side of the pastry before cutting out the vol-au-vent.

  7. Roll out the common pastry to the size of a dinner plate.

  8. Lay the common pastry on the puff pastry and lightly roll to adhere.

  9. Place on a baking sheet that has been wetted in the center.

  10. Use a cover to guide cutting the vol-au-vent shape.

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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