Puff Paste

Ingredients

• 1 pound flour
• 1 pound butter
• cold ice-water
• additional flour for dusting

Directions

1. Wash the butter in cold water and divide it into three parts, making thin cakes.

2. Place the cakes on ice to harden.

3. Sift the flour and rub one cake of butter into the flour until well combined.

4. Mix lightly with cold ice-water to form a dough.

5. Dust the paste-board with flour and roll out the dough very thin, rolling away from you.

6. Roll out one cake of butter as thin as possible and lay it on the paste, dusting with a little flour.

7. Roll up the paste and then roll it out thin again.

8. Repeat with the second cake of butter, rolling it out and layering it on the paste.

9. Cut the rolled paste into pieces as needed.

10. For edging, roll out a piece long enough to go around the plate without seams, using three or four layers of thin paste.