Saturday, August 4, 2007

Basic Tart Dough

Basic Tart Dough Ingredients:
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 tablespoons very cold water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1 1/4 cups all purposed plain flour
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cold unsalted butter

Steps to follow:
1. Stir in egg yolk, water and vanilla in small bowl.
2. To make dough by hand, stir flour, sugar and salt in big bowl.
3. Cut butter into the flour mixture until texture resembles coarse cornmeal, with butter not larger than peas.
4. Add in egg mixture and mix with fork until dough pull together.
5. Pat the dough into a ball, and flatten into disk.
6. Dough can be used immediately or wrapped in plastic wrap and refrigerated until chill about 30 minutes.
7. Flatten the dough on lightly flour board with 6 to 8 gentle rolling.
8. Lightly dust(flour) the dough and roll out about 3 mm thick.
9. Cut out the 5 cm greater than your tart pan.

credit to Fruit Dessert

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