Rich Puff Paste

Ingredients

• 1 pound all-purpose flour
• 1 pound unsalted butter
• Cold ice water
• Additional flour for dusting

Directions

1. Wash the butter in cold water and divide it into three parts. Flatten each part into thin cakes and chill them until hard.

2. Sift the flour into a bowl. Take one cake of butter and rub it into the flour.

3. Mix lightly with cold ice water until combined. Dust a clean surface with flour.

4. Roll out the dough very thin, always rolling away from you. Be careful not to break the crust.

5. Roll out one cake of butter as thin as possible and lay it on the dough. Dust with a little flour and roll the dough up.

6. Roll it out thin again. Repeat with the second cake of butter, dusting with flour and rolling up again.

7. Cut the rolled dough into pieces as needed. For edging, roll out a long piece to fit around the plate without seams.

8. The edging should be three or four layers of thinly rolled paste placed on the rim of the plate.