Sweet pastry
This sweet pastry is one of the basics of French pâtisserie, just like shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée) and sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée). It is less rich in butter, so less "short" but crisper, it can be used in all tart recipes, or for any other pastry-based desserts.
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Last modified on: June 27th 2018
Keywords for this recipe:For 1 kg 100 g, you will need:
- 1
4.2 oz egg ( How to... ) - 2
1 lb + 14.2 oz flour - 3
7.8 oz butter - 4
9.5 oz icing sugar - 5
0.2 oz fine (or table) salt
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 13 min. | 13 min. |
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
Stage 2 - 3 min.
Put into a food-mixer bowl: 1 lb + 14.2 oz flour, 7.8 oz butter cut into small pieces, 9.5 oz icing sugar and 0.2 oz fine (or table) salt.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Mix together on medium speed until it makes a grainy dough.
Stage 4
Stop as soon as it reaches this consistency.
Stage 5 - 2 min.
Start the mixer again and pour in the egg in a thin stream.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Stop kneading as soon as the dough is evenly mixed.
Stage 7
Weigh out the dough into pieces of 8 to 10 oz (250 to 300 grams), shape into balls, then into flat "cakes" and wrap these in plastic film.
Refrigerate until needed, or freeze.
Refrigerate until needed, or freeze.
Remarks
Sweet pastry can be used the day it is made. It just needs to rest in the fridge for 1 hour beforehand.
Keeping
Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.
Source
Based on a recipe from the INBP (French professional bakery institute).
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 4,763 Kcal or 19,942 Kj | 66 gr | 677 gr | 199 gr |
| 238 % | 25 % | 64 % | 30 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 411 Kcal or 1,721 Kj | 6 gr | 58 gr | 17 gr |
| 21 % | 2 % | 6 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 1 kg 100 g : 3.33 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
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This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spring veal sauté , Brownies, Chestnut and hazelnut biscuits, Four quarters, Strawberry and rhubarb crumble, ... All |
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Succès praliné (praline meringue), Croute à thé, Mirlitons, Moist Lemon Cake, Arlesian Biscuits, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Langoustine gratin, Curried prawn risotto, "BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits, Polenta with spinach and soft-poached egg, Yeast-based flaky dough (for croissants), ... All |
 | Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grapefruit cake, Pistachio shortbread biscuits, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), Chocolate cake, Lemon tart, ... All |
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