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Le Cordon Bleu Complete Cookery Techniques: With over 200 Basic Recipes from the World's Most Famous Culinary School

Pâte Brisée / French Shortcrust Pastry

Page 294

Cuisine: French | Course Type: Pies and Tarts

(1 review)

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Recipe Review

24th April 2010

friederike from Berlin,

The authors explain that the typical English shortcurst pastry normally contains equal amounts of butter and lard. They do not (explicitly) explain, though, that English shortcrust pastry usually doesn't contain eggs - at least that is what I have read somewhere. This one does.

I had the idea that the addition of the egg made it more difficult to spread the dough in the baking dish; the result however, was very delicious. I think that a typical English shortcrust pastry is slightly more crumbly, other than that it is difficult to tell.

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