Pastry
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Pastry - II, shortening recipe
Green Recipe Box Pastry - II card
Ingredients
- 2 ½ Cups flour
- 1 tsp. salt
- ¾ Cup shortening
- ⅓ cup cold Water
Pastry, oil-or-lard recipe
Green Recipe Box two-sided Pastry card
Ingredients
- 3 C flour
- 1 t salt
- 1 t b. powder
- 1 C oil or 1/2 # lard
- a milk-and-water line containing ¼ C, ¾, and a partly overwritten enough milk to amount ¾ C phrase
Directions
- Mix flour, salt, b. powder. Mix in lard = 2 knives, mix up water + milk using ¼ as much water as milk + add few drops at a time, working in mixture.
- Turn it over when you roll it out. Keep board clean - scrape & knife.
Timing: add few drops at a time, working in mixture
Equipment: mixing bowl, two knives, measuring tools, rolling pin, board, scraper or knife
As written
Mains
Pastry 3 C flour 1 t salt 1 t b. powder 1 C oil or 1/2 # lard a milk-and-water line containing ¼ C, ¾, and a partly overwritten enough milk to amount ¾ C phrase Mix flour, salt, b. powder. Mix in lard = 2 knives, mix up water + milk using ¼ as much water as milk + add few drops at a time, working in mixture. Turn it over when you roll it out. Keep board clean - scrape & knife. add few drops at a time, working in mixture mixing bowl, two knives, measuring tools, rolling pin, board, scraper or knife
Compare the cards
Fat, leavening, flour, and liquid
- Green Recipe Box two-sided Pastry card
- 3 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 cup oil or 1/2 pound lard, and a partly obscured milk-and-water formula.
- Green Recipe Box Pastry - II card
- 2 1/2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 3/4 cup shortening, and 1/3 cup cold water; no baking powder.
Method
- Green Recipe Box two-sided Pastry card
- A complete two-surface method covers mixing, cutting in lard with two knives, adding liquid gradually, rolling, and board cleaning.
- Green Recipe Box Pastry - II card
- No method is written; the card consists only of the title and four ingredients.
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