Single Crust Pastry Recipe

August 23, 2012 by pingskie Leave a Comment

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How to make Single Crust Pastry Recipe.

Single Crust Pastry Recipe. This single crust pastry recipe is very basic and easy to make. A light, flaky, and sweet tender crust with a buttery flavour and ideal for any pie or tart, ready to be filled with your favorite filling. You can make this pastry dough ahead of time if your schedule is hectic and keep the dough sealed in a plastic wrap and store in a freezer and thaw in a refrigerator for a couple hours or so. This pastry dough will last for at least a month.

Single Crust Pastry Ingredients:

1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. sugar
1 stick butter, frozen & cubes
1 egg yolk
1/8 cup ice water (+1 tbsp. if needed)
1 egg, lightly beaten for egg wash

Single Crust Pastry Procedure:

Place flour, salt and sugar in a food processor, pulse to combine then add the butter and pulse until mixture turns into crumbs. With processor running add the egg yolk and ice water and stir quickly to combine. Test dough with your finger if it’s too crumbly add 1 tbsp. of ice water and stir and if it’s too soft that’s done. Transfer in a plastic wrap and form a ball then flatten like a disc and refrigerate for an hour before using.

Roll out dough on a lightly floured working surface, and make a round with an extra inch from the size of your pie pan. Roll pastry dough on rolling pin for easier handling then transfers on the pie pan and cut off excess dough with a knife then design edges with fork. Prick base of pastry shells with a fork and chill for 30 minutes.

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Hello, I'm Ping Joven welcome to Pinoy Desserts the home of Filipino Dessert Recipes, I love sweets and I love to share my goodies with my family and friends. I’ve spent so much time in our kitchen even though I don’t have formal cooking education, but I cook and bake a lot. I have a large collection of cookbooks. I love watching Foodnetwork Channel & YouTube cooking videos it helps me develop my skills. To my fellow home cooks and home-bakers we should keep doing what we love and enjoy being creative in the kitchen. I also love taking photos of my food but, I’m not a good photographer, so I just hope and pray that my food will make you hungry, so you won’t notice my bad composition LOL. And lastly, please have mercy on my poor writing skills, English subject has always giving me a headache and as I compose this bio I can feel a migraine starts to kick in LOL.

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