Posted on: Wednesday, October 22, 2003
COOK'S TIPS
For pastry, just chill out
When making pastry dough, one of the easiest ways to mix the fat into the flour is to grate frozen butter rather than cut it into pieces. This also works with lard and solid vegetable shortening.
"Mom's Best Desserts" by Andrea Chesman and Fran Raboff (Storey, 2002)