Pastry Dough

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 -5 tablespoons ice water

Recipe

• 1 blend together flour, butter, sugar, and salt in a bowl with your fingertips or a pastry blender (or pulse in a food processor) just until mixture resembles coarse meal with some small (roughly pea-size) butter lumps. drizzle 3 tablespoons ice water evenly over mixture and gently stir with a fork (or pulse) until incorporated.
• 2 squeeze a small handful of dough: if it doesn’t hold together, add more ice water, 1/2 tablespoon at a time, stirring (or pulsing) until incorporated. do not overwork dough, or pastry will be tough.
• 3 gather all dough together with pastry scraper. press into a ball, then flatten into a 5-inch disk.
• 4 wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill until firm, at least 1 hour.
• 5 if you’re making two desserts that call for this pastry dough, you can make a double batch.
• 6 pastry dough can be chilled up to 2 days or frozen, wrapped well, up to 3 months.