Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, hot water pastry. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. 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 pastry is a pastry type used for making pies.
Hot water pastry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hot water pastry is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook hot water pastry using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Hot water pastry:
- Get 2 cup all-purpose flour
- Take 1 cup hot water
- Get 1/2 cup of ANY kind of fat
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 extra flour for kneading
- Get utensils
- Make ready 1 Mixing bowl
- Make ready 1 your hands
- Get 1 cutting board or counter top
- Get 1 coffee pot or stove top
Sieve the flour into a large bowl with the salt. Make a well in the middle of the flour and pour in the lard and water mixture. Hot water crust can handle deep-dish like this. My fellow Americans, I There's a reason the Brits love hot water crust pastry.
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
This dough has so many checks in its "pro". A bit of an oddball in pastry terms as the mixture has to be hot rather than cold. This is a heavy dough pastry made by heating water and fat (lard) together and mixing them into the flour. 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.
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