American Southern

Butter Pastry

Name: Butter Pastry
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1.5 lb flour; 1 lb butter

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 25. One of the earliest known cookbooks by an African American author.

15 minPrep Time

30 minCook Time

8Servings

mediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

1 1/2 lb flour
1 lb butter

Instructions

1
One lb eight ounces flour to one lb butter; cream and beat all the water out of the butter; have it firm.
2
Quarter the butter into four quarters, taking out four ounces of the flour; take one quarter of the butter and mix with the large quantity of the flour, stirring with a knife, not using the hand; roll the dough very lightly, sprinkling over the sheets the remaining flour and spreading them over with the butter, folding and rolling alternately.
3
Lay away the dough on the slab, leave it one hour, cut in small pieces, roll thin, lay three sheets in a patty and bake.
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