It is by far
the best pastry blender I have ever, ever used!
Not exact matches
I bought my
pastry blender bladey thing from your Amazon link and I'd definitely buy whatever thermometer you thought was
best.
If there can be no clearer indication that this will be the Summer of Pie at the Smitten Kitchen — as if a 6 - week onslaught of galette after pie smackdowns after savory tart built on a platform of tartlets crusted bettys and free - form pretties did not already lead us to that conclusion — my
pastry blender broke this week after putting in five very
good years.
When I am teaching folks how to make pie dough or biscuits, I find that novices have the
best results when they learn the grating method first; once they see what it should look like they can decide to use a
pastry blender or a fork / knife to cut in the butter.
In a medium bowl, add first 3 ingredients and cut together with a
pastry blender or with two knives until it's
well combined and is similar to wet, lumpy sand... this will be your crust.
Either cut the butter pieces into the flour mixture with a
pastry blender or rub them in with your fingertips until
well - combined.
I prefer to make
pastry in the food processor because it's really
good at quickly and evenly distributing both the butter pieces and the liquid into the flour without over-working the gluten, which can create a tough crust — but you can do this by hand with a
pastry blender and a fork, if you prefer.
I used a handheld
pastry dough
blender to mash the potatoes because I don't have a
good potato masher or handheld mixer, but you have several options for this step.
With your fingers or a
pastry blender, rub butter nto dry ingredients until
well incorporated and butter is the size of small peas.
Make the filling for the cake by mixing together the 1/2 cup flour and 2 Tablespoons butter with a fork (or
better yet, a
pastry blender), till you end up with the sort of mixture you'd expect when making crumble topping.
I found using a
pastry blender worked
well to work the shortening / butter into the coconut flour and coconut palm sugar I substituted in place of the honey.
Because I am not very
good with a
pastry blender, or maybe I just need to have more patience, or work out more.
Using a potato masher or
pastry blender, mash coconut oil and butter until
well blended.