Christina Martin's Quick Puff Pastry Recipe

Christina Martin's Quick Puff Pastry Photo: Jackie Cameron

“Rich, hearty pies with homemade quick puff pastry always excite me. This recipe is so easy. There is no reason to ever buy a commercial, ready-to-make roll. The rich, buttery aromas and flavours of homemade puff, from the minute the heat of the oven hits the pastry, are incomparable.”

— Jackie Cameron

Christina Martin's Quick Puff Pastry Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1kg cake flour

• 15ml salt

• 1kg unsalted butter

• 500ml iced water

Method:

1. Sift the flour onto a clean work surface and make a well in the centre, have the butter out of the fridge for 15 minutes and cut into small dice.

2. Put the butter together with the salt into the well in the centre of the flour.

3. With your fingers, quickly work the ingredients together, gradually working the flour with your left hand.

4. When the butter becomes very small and half squashed and grainy, pour in the iced water and incorporate it into the pastry.

5. Do not knead it and stop working it as soon as the pastry comes together but still contains flakes of butter.

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