Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, hot water pastry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Preparation In a large bowl stir together flour and salt and make a well in center. Cut butter and shortening into bits and put into well. Hot Water Crust Pies have a thicker, sturdier pastry for holding layers of vegetables and meat. These savory pies were traditionally used for creating hand raised pies, that don't require a dish.
Hot water pastry is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Hot water pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot water pastry using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot water pastry:
- Take all-purpose flour
- Get hot water
- Prepare of ANY kind of fat
- Take salt
- Prepare extra flour for kneading
- Make ready utensils
- Take Mixing bowl
- Make ready your hands
- Take cutting board or counter top
- Get coffee pot or stove top
Make a well in the middle of the flour and pour in the lard and water mixture. LeGourmetTV Is Now Glen & Friends Cooking! the classic easy hot water pastry dough that can be formed into stand up meat pies, or rolled for pie plates. A bit of an oddball in pastry terms as the mixture has to be hot rather than cold. This is a heavy Because of the high quantity of water used, the pastry is quite hard and strong, making it suitable for.
Instructions to make Hot water pastry:
- Sift flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl
- Now, you can EITHER 1) heat your fat and water to boiling on the stove OR 2) Run your water through a clean coffee maker and melt your fat in the microwave. Either way is fine as long as they're boiling hot for the next step
- Move fast but be safe! Dump your hot fat and boiling water into your dry ingredients and combine until a soft dough forms
- Let it rest until its cool enough to handle safely, then knead until it stiffens up, I usually rest it 10 minutes or so then knead it just until stiff (use a lightly floured surface obviously)
- Now you can either use it immediately or you can wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for up to 2 days. Just take it out, roll it or shape it however you wish and stuff it!
- Bake according to your recipe, it blind bakes well too provided you dock it
- This makes enough for 2 9" pie crusts or 1 13x9" pan (bottom only) I don't usually mature it and you can use any kind of fat: butter, lard, shortening, I've even used hamburger grease straight from the pan. You can also season it with various seasonings or spices instead of salt. It makes a nice flaky pastry that is also quite sturdy if you wish to mold your pie instead of using a pan
A bit of an oddball in pastry terms as the mixture has to be hot rather than cold. This is a heavy Because of the high quantity of water used, the pastry is quite hard and strong, making it suitable for. Hot water crust can handle deep-dish like this. My fellow Americans, I There's a reason the Brits love hot water crust pastry. This dough has so many checks in its "pro".
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