Tart Paste
1 pound of flour. 6 ounces of butter. 2 ounces of powdered sugar. 2 eggs. Little salt. 1/2 cupful of water.
Rub the butter into the flour, add the eggs, sugar and salt with the water, mix and knead it smooth.
Jessup Whitehead's American Pastry Cook — the hotel pastry trade's own manual, in hundreds of numbered recipes.
1 pound of flour. 6 ounces of butter. 2 ounces of powdered sugar. 2 eggs. Little salt. 1/2 cupful of water.
Rub the butter into the flour, add the eggs, sugar and salt with the water, mix and knead it smooth.