Ingredients
Method
- Weigh the flour and butter into the Thermomix bowl.
- Chop 5 sec/sp4.
- Add the water and lemon juice and process 4 sec/sp 4.5.
- Tip on to a ThermoMat or silpat mat and press together, using the mat to bring the mass into a rectangle shape. I always use a mat to bring the pastry together as I have hot hands!
- Wrap in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for at least half an hour.
- Sprinkle bench or mat with flour. Roll pastry out to a long thick rectangle, about 10cm x 30cm, short end facing you. Turn over frequently and make sure the pastry isn't sticking to the bench or the mat.
- Fold the top 1/3 down and the bottom 1/3 up to meet in the middle.
- Fold the bottom over the top. This is called a book fold. Brush off the flour before folding.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 20 minutes, longer in summer. (Putting it in the freezer is even better)
- Place dough onto floured mat. Roll out again to make the rectangle shape, but this time 20cm x 30cm. Fold again and place a fingertip into the dough to mark it as one fold. Refrigerate.
- Place a fingertip into the dough to mark it as one fold.
- Repeat four more times until you have five fingermarks in the dough.
- Rest for an hour or so in the fridge.
- When ready to use, roll out and cut to shape.
- Press scraps together and refrigerate for re-use.
- Best baked at 210 C.
Notes
1. Use strong bread flour.
2. Bash with a rolling pin to develop gluten.
3. Freeze finished product eg. sausage rolls, prior to baking in a hot oven.
4. Can be frozen at stage 13.
2. Bash with a rolling pin to develop gluten.
3. Freeze finished product eg. sausage rolls, prior to baking in a hot oven.
4. Can be frozen at stage 13.