Good Food

Good food and how to prepare it — a full course of home cookery, soups through beverages, preserved from the keyed text.

Pastry

8 recipes in this part of Good Food.

Puff Paste

1 pound butter 1 pound pastry flour or 14 ozs. bread flour Cold water Wash the butter, pat and fold until no water flies. Reserve two…

Quick Puff Paste

1 cup bread flour 1 tablespoon lard Cold water 7/8 cup butter Work lard into flour, first using knife then tips of fingers. Moisten to a…

Plain Paste

1 1/2 cups flour 1/4 cup lard 1/4 cup butter 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cold water Wash butter, pat, and form in circular piece. Add salt to flour…

Chopped Paste

2 cups flour 2 tablespoons lard 2/3 cup butter 1/2 teaspoon salt Cold water Wash butter. Mix salt with flour, put in chopping tray, add…

Quick Paste

1 1/2 cups flour 3/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup lard, crisco, or cottolene Cold water Mix salt with flour, cut in shortening with knife. Moisten…

Paste with Lard

1 1/2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup lard Cold water Mix salt with flour. Reserve one and one-fourth tablespoons lard, work in…

Entire Wheat Paste

1 cup fine Entire Wheat Flour 1/2 cup pastry flour 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons lard 1/2 cup butter Cold water Make same as Plain Paste…

Quality Paste

2 cups flour 1/4 cup lard 3/4 cup butter Ice water Put flour in bowl, add lard, and cut it in with knife. When finely chopped add water to…

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