Flaky Pastry
- 225 g flour
- 75 g butter or 75 g margarine
- 75 g lard or 75 g cooking fat
- 1 pinch salt
- squeeze lemon juice
- Sieve flour and salt into mixing bowl.
- Mix fat well together.
- Rub quarter of fat into flour.
- Mix to stiff dough with water and added lemon juice.
- Roll out strip about 1.5 cm thick about three times as long as wide.
- Divide remaining fat in three portions.
- Dot one portion in small pieces over top two thirds of dough.
- Fold pastry in three, first folding bottom section upwards.
- Rest for 1/2 hour in fridge.
- Roll out pastry and repeat with two remaining portions of fat.
- Put aside in cool place for 15 minutes.
- Roll out to required thickness and size for use.
flour, butter, lard, salt, lemon juice
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/flaky-pastry-431293 (may not work)