Hot water pastry Recipe

For those of you who are interested in the Hot water pastry Recipe that Peter mentioned in his Pasties post yesterday...here it is:

Hot water pastry

150g butter, chopped
2/3 cup (160ml) water
2 1/2 cups (375g) plain flour
1/2 teaspoon sea salt flakes

Place the butter and water in a saucepan over high heat and bring to the boil.  Remove from the heat.  Add the flour and salt and stir until a smooth dough forms.  Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (usually takes only a few minutes).

Recipe from Donna Hay magazine, Issue 57, p150


Then just roll it out to desired thickness (not too thin) and filling and enclose.  Bake until crisp and golden.

(one batch of dough makes about 6 large pasties)


If you've every made cooked playdough before you will find this pastry recipe a very similar process (and the end result is a fairly similar consistency).