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Cooking & Baking

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Warpy

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Mon Jun 24, 2024, 01:58 AM Jun 2024

The Chronicles of Julia Child's (Not So) Fast Puff Pastry Pithiviers [View all]



Poor Jamie, Child's instructions on this one were awful. "The size of lima beans," are we talking baby limas or big, mature dried limas? My guess is that he went for the latter. That's why it melted into a puddle, losing its shape completely.

The only way I've ever made the "fast" puff pastry work is by grating frozen butter into the flour, stirring frequently to coat it all with the flour. Plus, there is no way I'd do it during the summer without a chilled surface to work on.

Thoughts, fellow foodies?
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