Pate Brisee For The Four Cheese Barquettes |
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Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 30 |
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The Silver Spoon is Italy's best-selling cookbook for over fifty years. Recipe for the boat-shaped pastry called Pate Brisee which accompanies the Four-Cheese Barquettes recipe Ingredients:
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour plus extra for dusting |
1/4 cup butter, softened and diced |
1 egg, lightly beaten |
water |
salt |
Directions:
1. Sift the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on the counter and add the diced butter. Rub the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles bread crumbs. Shape into a mound, and make a well in the center and pour in the beaten egg ad 2 tbs water.
2. Knead lightly by hand (your hands should be cold-if necessary hold them under cold running water) or a metal spatula.
3. Wrap the pastry in plastic wrap, flatten gently with a rolling pin and chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Divide the pastry into several pieces, roll out on a lightly floured surface and use to line boat-shaped, oval or round tartlet tins. Line with baking parchment or wax paper and fill with baking beans.
5. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
6. Remove the pans from the oven, remove the beans and parchment or wax paper, and let cool before filling.
7. The quantity of a pastry given here is also enough for two 9-inch round pies. Halve or double the quantity according to your requirements.
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