So today I made puff pastry and as promised in the video here is the recipe for the batch of puff pastry I made. This is the smallest batch of puff pastry I have ever made. It also reminded me of some advice I got from one of my chef's in college. He told us that making puff pastry from scratch is better, but buying it will give you the best, most consistant product. And he was right. I tried mixing the butter by hand and had clumps, so when it came time to roll out my butter broke out thru the dough and got extreamly messy. I will deffinatly suggest buying the premade stuff. but if you want an adventure it is fun.
1 pound of butter (today I used 50% butter 50% butter flavored shortening)
1 pound of flour
1 cup of water
1 teaspoon of salt
Combine butter and 3/4 cups of flour mix into a paste.
Form into a square and refridgerate
Mix remaining flour, salt and water form into a smooth shiney ball
Roll out into a square and place the butter/ flour mixture and encase in dough.
Roll out and fold over into thirds, give it a quarter turn. Refridgerate for 20 minutes repeat 5 more times for a total of 6 turns.
Thats it. You're done. I will be posting the how to vid on youtube, and will post the link later
As promised here is the link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-T8MQB_Ng&feature=youtu.be
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