Puff Pastry
The puff pastry can easily be found in the grocery stores and of very good quality, but for the purists I've included a fairly simple puff pastry recipe. Be patient and take your time for a great pastry dough.
Ingredients
- 6 cups Flour
- 2 tsp Salt
- 2¼ cups Water
- 2 lbs Cold Butter sliced into ¼" strips
Instructions
- In a mixer fitted with dough hook place flour, salt and water and run machine until dough comes away from sides.
- Turn out onto lightly floured surface, roll dough out to a rectangle and let rest for 5 minutes.
- Place butter strip in center of dough and fold over side to cover butter. Roll back to a rectangle careful not to break dough and expose butter. Turn 90 degrees and fold dough in thirds then roll again.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes, repeat the roll and fold two more times.
- Chill dough again for 30 minutes before using.
- For Croissants bake puff pastry in a 400℉ oven for optimum puffiness and flakiness.
- Let rest 10 minutes.
