* Note: If using a hand mixer to beat the butter, use softened or room - temperature butter
instead of cold butter.
To the above bowl, add 1
stick of cold butter (cut into small cubes) and using your fingers break the butter and incorporate it into the dough.
Mix together some flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt, and then use a pastry blender or two forks to cut in four
tablespoons of cold butter.
Using a pastry blender, cut in the cubes
of cold butter until the mixture resembles cornmeal and there are still some larger pieces of butter.
After a sauce is cooked and seasoned, adding a knob or two
of cold butter helps to bring the sauce together, adding creaminess and thickness.
I make a simple streusel topping with a little flour, sugar, cinnamon and chopped nuts mixed with
bits of cold butter and spoon it over the top before I bake the muffin in the oven.
I'm always game for risk taking in the kitchen so I used a stick
of cold butter cut into about 8 pieces and swapped Rapadura in for the coconut sugar.
Add the butter and pulse or get your hands dirty by rubbing the butter and flour between your fingers (this is my favorite part of baking and one reason I don't use a food processor — I like the tactile -
ness of the cold butter and soft flour) until the flour resembles coarse meal.
The
rest of the COLD butter (or other fat) should be cut into larger pieces, dropped into the flour, and flattened down between your thumb and forefinger.
This one is more cookie like and uses soften butter instead
of the cold butter as in pate brisee which creates a flaky crust.
It's thanks to a method called lamination, in which dough is wrapped around a thick
sheet of cold butter, then rolled and folded again and again, yielding dozens of thin layers separated by — you guessed it — butter.
Keep warm in the oven until serving time, then place on hot plates (rinse plates under very hot water and dry well), or serve in a large heated bowl, topped with a
teaspoon of cold butter that will melt into a well on top of the potatoes.
Should be no more than 6 - 8 tablespoons of ice cold water to 16 ozs of flour, 2
sticks of cold butter or butter / shortening mix.
Add in the chopped pieces
of cold butter and cold shortening.
Add pieces
of cold butter and pulse everything together until butter becomes the size of a pea.
The flakiness of a good crust comes from separate pieces
of cold butter being covered in — and separated by — flour.
Picture a stick
of cold butter.
of cold butter, this cools the yolks and stops their cooking.