Pâte Brisée (Short Crust Pastry)

Puff Pastry ready to freeze

In French cooking, they use a lot of Pâte Brisée and Pâte Feuilletée (Puff Pastry). Lazy cook buys the Puff Pastry, but for the short crust pastry, I normally make a batch of 3 and freeze them.

Ingredients :
500 gm all purpose flour
6 gm salt
250 gm unsalted butter, softened
10 cl cold water

Mix the salt to the flour, then add the butter till it becomes like bread crumbs.

Flour and butter mix

Add water and combine. Let it sit for at least an hour.  Then I make this into 3 portions and put them in the freezer for later use.