Name: Excellent Bread Crust for Hot Pies or Tarts
Ingredients: 1 pound good white dough; 4 ounces butter (or more if needed); a little coarse sea salt

Excellent Bread Crust for Hot Pies or Tarts

Ingredients

1 pound good white dough
4 ounces butter (or more if needed)
a little coarse sea salt

Directions

Roll out the white dough into a square.
Make the butter into a ball and place it in the center of the dough.
Fold the corners of the dough over the butter and roll it out lightly two or three times, always folding the ends into the center.
Use the dough immediately.

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.