Puff Pastry for Steak Pie

[WolfendenP]

I would like to make a puff pastry for a Large Family Steak Pie.

I would welcome advice on the ingredients especially on flour and butter.

Thanks

Patricia

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Hi Patricia, would you consider a recipe for 'rough puff'. It's one I use all the time, on the grounds that the original recipe is quite laborious to make! The one I use originally came from the BBC cookery site and this is it.

Ingredients

300g/10½oz plain flour

pinch salt

50g/1¾oz butter, chilled and cut into cubes

120g/4½oz butter, frozen

Method

Mix the flour and salt together in a bowl. Rub in the chilled butter using your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Gradually add enough water to form a dough (about 4-6 tablespoons of water).

Roll the dough out into a rectangle on a lightly floured work surface.

Grate half of the frozen butter over the bottom two thirds of the dough. Fold down the top third and fold up the bottom third as if folding a letter.

Turn the folded dough through 90 degrees and roll it out into a rectangle again. Repeat the process of adding the remaining frozen butter and fold as before.

Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for 30 minutes before using.

It's maybe not quite as puffed and laminated as the proper recipe, but it's pretty good!

[WolfendenP in reply to Hidden]

Thank you, I will try it but I would still like to try it the other way too.