Curd Cheese Pastry recipe
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It may seem surprising that Curd Cheese can make a light pastry, but it does.
Remember, Pastry is only as good as the flour you use. Don't buy cheap flour.
ingredients
225 g (8 oz) curd cheese
100 g (4 oz) butter
100 g (4 oz) margarine
225 g (8 oz) flour
5 g (1 tsp) baking powder
100 g (4 oz) butter
100 g (4 oz) margarine
225 g (8 oz) flour
5 g (1 tsp) baking powder
method
1. Mix the cheese and fats together and rub them into the flour and baking powder.
2. Refrigerate for a minimum of 3 hours.
3. This pastry can be used to make sweet tarts, Danish pastries, strudels.
4. For a strudel, roll out and spread with chopped apples, jam, raisins, crushed cornflakes and sugar. Roll up and bake.
5. For individual pastries, cut pastry into squares measuring about 5 cm (2 in).
6. Fill with apricot jam, finely chopped apples with raisins, or cheese filling.
7. Either fold over to make a triangle or bring the corners together in the middle.
8. Brush with beaten egg and bake at 180°C (350°F) Gas 4 for 30 minutes.
2. Refrigerate for a minimum of 3 hours.
3. This pastry can be used to make sweet tarts, Danish pastries, strudels.
4. For a strudel, roll out and spread with chopped apples, jam, raisins, crushed cornflakes and sugar. Roll up and bake.
5. For individual pastries, cut pastry into squares measuring about 5 cm (2 in).
6. Fill with apricot jam, finely chopped apples with raisins, or cheese filling.
7. Either fold over to make a triangle or bring the corners together in the middle.
8. Brush with beaten egg and bake at 180°C (350°F) Gas 4 for 30 minutes.
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