October 15, 2009: Wholemeal Shortcrust Pastry

greenie pie. But the crust didn't especially print me final fourth dimension thence instead I gave Lucy's wholemeal shortcrust recipe a go. Though she painstakingly grates as well as rubs butter into flour, I took the lazy nutrient processor road without sick effects. I did guide hold to a greater extent than nous to Lucy's other instructions as well as assurances, as well as they're simply what this impatient hit needs - the crust volition tear as well as scissure but that's simply fine. The holes larn patched upwards amongst spare dough as well as it bakes into a rustic, crispy as well as tasty vanquish regardless.

Though the recipe isn't vegan, the butter used is frozen as well as I wonder if the same quantity of frozen Nuttelex powerfulness also work. If not, there's ever Clotilde's already-vegan Nourish Me)

150g butter
300g wholemeal flour
pinch of salt
juice of 1 lemon

Wrap upwards the butter inwards greaseproof newspaper as well as freeze it for at to the lowest degree thirty minutes.

Put the flour as well as common salt into a nutrient processor as well as pulse them briefly. Cut the butter into cubes, add together it to the nutrient processor, as well as procedure the mixture until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add the lemon juice as well as procedure further, until the dough simply starts coming together.

Turn the crumbly dough onto a build clean bench. Squish it together as well as brand 2 balls from it. Wrap the balls inwards greaseproof newspaper as well as refrigerate them for 30-60 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Take the pastry from the fridge, lightly flour a build clean surface, as well as curlicue out the pastry balls every bit thinly every bit y'all tin (aim for 5mm). It volition in all probability tear a flake along the way, but don't worry near it! Gently relaxation the largest pastry pieces into a pie dish, thence role the smaller scraps to acre upwards the holes as well as cracks. Trim the edges as well as keep all the leftover pastry - you're non done amongst it yet.

Place a canvass of baking newspaper over the pastry as well as fill upwards it amongst dried beans to gently weigh downwards the pastry base. Bake the pastry for 10 minutes, take the beans as well as newspaper as well as bake the pastry for a farther 10 minutes.

By right away y'all powerfulness hold upwards disappointed to run into to a greater extent than cracks as well as holes inwards the shell. Gently fill upwards these amongst simply about of the leftover pastry. I constitute the best agency was to dab on roughly the correct sized scrap, thence laissez passer on it a infinitesimal to soften from the oestrus of the pastry, earlier using the dorsum of a spoon to gently smoothen the fighting out.

Allow the mended pastry vanquish to cool completely earlier filling it every bit y'all choose.