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Quick Flaky Pastry

Ingredients Method

250g Plain flour The margarine has to be block not soft

margarine. Take it hard from the fridge,
175g Stork margarine (block) weigh out the required amount, then
wrap it in a piece of foil and return it to

A pinch of salt the freezer for half an hour. Meanwhile
sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl.

Cold Water When you take the margarine out of the
freezer hold it in the foil, dip it into the
flour, then grate it on a coarse grater
placed in the bowl over the flour. Keep
dipping the margarine down into the
flour to make it easier to grate. At the
end you will be left with a lump of
grated fat in the middle of the flour, so
now take a palette knife and start to cut
it into the flour don’t use your hands
until the mixture is crumbly.

Now add enough water to bring it to
form a dough that leaves the bowl clean,
using your hands. Pop the dough into a
polythene bag and chill it for half an
hour this time in the fridge.