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Puff-Paste, Household

Beat out the water from ten ounces of butter. Rub two ounces of this into a pound of flour till it is quite fine, and add a pinch of salt. Whisk the white of an egg, and mix with it the juice of a lemon and a small quantity of water. Stir this into the flour to make a paste. Roll it out, and be careful to roll it one way and straight from you. Roll out the remainder of the butter, lay it on the paste, sift a little paste over it and the rolling-pin, fold the paste into three, and roll it out twice. Let it lie in a cool place for some time; an hour will do, but twelve hours will be better. Before using it roll it out very thin; it can scarcely be too thin. Bake in a quick oven. Be careful to handle the paste as lightly as possible, and to make it in a cool place with cool hands.