Pastry Without Butter
Ingredients
Directions
Make the pastry
Mix the baking powder and salt with the flour.
Add the salad oil and enough water to form a paste for rolling.
Roll out the paste two or three times.
Bake
Bake immediately.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Flour
- Forms the main structure of the pastry once mixed with liquid.
- Salad oil
- Provides fat for tenderness and flakiness in place of butter.
- Baking powder
- Releases gas in the oven to help the pastry rise and lighten.
The step that matters
Bake immediately. Baking powder starts releasing gas as soon as it meets liquid, so waiting lets it lose lift and the pastry may bake up flatter and denser.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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