Steps to Prepare Homemade Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

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Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Basic shortcrust pastry is the easiest pastry to make, it is a versatile pastry suitable for sweet or savory dishes. Sometimes a sweet shortcrust pastry is needed, especially for desserts and sweet pies as it adds extra flavor and depth. A rich shortcrust pastry recipe is similar to basic shortcrust but has an egg and sugar added to it. This sweet shortcrust pastry recipe makes the perfect pastry to wrap delicious fruit pies or sweet tarts in.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have basic sweet shortcrust pastry using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1. Make ready 250 g plain flour, sifted
2. Get 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
3. Make ready 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
4. Prepare Pinch salt
5. Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
6. Get 2 egg yolks
7. Take 1 tablespoon milk

If you don't have baking beans, you can use uncooked rice or lentils instead. Blind bake the pastry until lightly golden. Jamie has a recipe for sweet, crumbly shortcrust pastry that's so easy even Buddy can. For this pastry, you can forget the notion that everything needs to be kept cool.

Instructions to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1. In a food processor, process flour, sugar, salt and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and milk, pulse till the dough comes together.
2. Without overworking the dough, form dough into a ball and place in a clean bowl, then wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes to rest.
3. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Lightly grease a 22cm loose-bottomed tart tin and line base with baking paper
4. Place pastry on a lightly floured work surface or between two parchment papers. Using a lightly dusted rolling pin, start to evenly flatten roll dough, keeping it as round and neat as possible around the edges making an indent in dough at quarter turns. With even pressure, turn and lift pastry in a clockwise direction, rolling to a thickness of approximately 3mm.
5. Carefully line the tart tin with the pastry, and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
6. Blind bake the pastry for 15 mins, remove the baking beans from the tart and bake for a further 10 mins. Remove tart from oven, allow to cool completely before filling.

Jamie has a recipe for sweet, crumbly shortcrust pastry that's so easy even Buddy can. For this pastry, you can forget the notion that everything needs to be kept cool. In fact, you don't even need to chill this one before use. Combine flour and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Cut butter into tablespoon-sized pieces; add it to the flour and butter.

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