Rich Puff Paste

Ingredients

• 1 lb all-purpose flour
• 1 lb unsalted butter
• Cold water
• Flour for dusting

Directions

1. Wash the salt from the butter in cold water and divide it into 3 parts. Chill on ice to harden.

2. Sift the flour into a bowl. Take 1 part of the butter and rub it into the flour using your hands, adding cold water to form a dough.

3. Dust a clean surface with flour and roll the dough out very thin, rolling away from you.

4. Roll out one part of the butter as thin as possible and lay it on the dough. Sprinkle with a little more flour, then roll up the dough and roll it out again.

5. Repeat with the second part of the butter, laying it on the dough, sprinkling with flour, and rolling up again.

6. Cut the dough into pieces as needed for edging, rolling out a piece long enough to go around the plate. The edging should have 3 or 4 layers.