Delicious Hot water pastry Recipe

Hot water pastry. 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 can handle deep-dish like this.

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. A bit of an oddball in pastry terms as the mixture has to be hot rather than cold. You can make yummy Hot water pastry using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it with this recipe.

Basic Ingredients of Hot water pastry

1. Prepare 2 cup of all-purpose flour.
2. You need 1 cup of hot water.
3. Prepare 1/2 cup of of ANY kind of fat.
4. You need 1 tsp of salt.
5. It's 1 of extra flour for kneading.
6. It's of utensils.
7. You need 1 of Mixing bowl.
8. Prepare 1 of your hands.
9. It's 1 of cutting board or counter top.
10. Prepare 1 of coffee pot or stove top.

This is a heavy dough pastry made by heating water and fat (lard) together and mixing them into the flour. Hot water crust is ideal for savory pies, such as this beef and potato pie. Since this pastry is quite Add a few drops of water if the pastry seems too dry or crumbly. Make sure to knead it well to build.

Hot water pastry instructions

1. Sift flour and salt together in a large mixing bowl.
2. 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.
3. Move fast but be safe! Dump your hot fat and boiling water into your dry ingredients and combine until a soft dough forms.
4. 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).
5. 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!.
6. Bake according to your recipe, it blind bakes well too provided you dock it.
7. 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.

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. This is pork pie pastry, a nice fatty mixture that bakes to a rich brown and holds in the wet filling and juices snugly. Both the pastry and pie are much easier than many recipes suggest. This is a vegan hot water pastry, uses a lower-gluten flour, and it works perfectly. I've made it Vegan Hot Water Pastry.