American Southern

Puff Paste

Name: Puff Paste
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Ingredients: 1.5 lb flour; 0.75 lb butter; 2 tsp cream tartar; 0.5 tsp soda

Historic recipe from Malinda Russell's 1866 cookbook "A Domestic Cook Book". Page 22. 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
3/4 lb butter
2 tsp cream tartar
1/2 tsp soda

Instructions

1
One and a half lb flour, 3-4ths do.
2
butter; rub a quarter of the butter, together with two teaspoons cream tartar and half teaspoon soda, into the flour; spread the remainder of the butter over the sheets, fold and roll again thin, and bake in patties for tarts.

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