pastry

Last time I had pastry scraps, I had a cooking apple in the fridge, so I made an apple pasty. Today I resorted to making a raspberry jam pasty becuase I coudn't think quickly enough to invent something from the random ingredients I had in the fridge or store cupboard. I wanted to use the oven...

Can anyone tell me how to avoid the pastry shrinkage problem please ? Sometimes the vertical sides seem to halve and leave me with nothing. Also, how do I stop the bottom bubbling up whilst it is cooking please.?

Does anyone make their own puff pastry? the stuff I have been finding here in Australia is crap and way too think. it doesn't join together easily and doesn't really puff up. it's also in sheets not blocks and obviously from my point of view dairy free is needed. in the UK i just used Jus Roll...

I've been promising to write this up for a while now. there are 2 ingredients that make this recipe different from normal. the first is the use of 1tbsp olive or sunflower oil. the 2nd is the use of brown sugar dissolved in a couple of tablespoons of hot water. somehow these two extra...

It's it possible to make a sweet vegan shortcrust pastry? I can only find ones with egg in them yet normal savoury shortcrust pastry is easily vegan using vegan margarine because it doesn't have egg in it. So why does sweet shortcrust pastry have egg in it and savoury shortcrust pastry doesnt?

I saw on another thread that @SatNavSaysStraightOn makes her own pastry and it was wholemeal. Whenever I make wholemeal pastry it is always hard and chewy and not very nice. she said gets was amazingly soft and really nice despite being vegan. I was wondering because I need a vegan recipe or...

Having obtained some exotic mushrooms, I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone. As the current co-judge for the The CookingBites Recipe Challenge I thought I would try out the recipe for Vol au vent from @valedevento in my 'test kitchen'. I made a few minor changes (apart from using...

Quick question. Due to various time constraints and the fact that I have yet to find a homemade shortcrust pastry recipe that is dairy free and that I am happy with, I have been buying one (Jus-rol which is vegan). But I assume it has a high water content because it shrinks really badly when...

One of my favourite pie crusts is a savoury pie crust that includes mashed potatoes... Ingredients 6oz (175g) mashed potato 8oz (225g) plain flour 3oz (85g) butter or dairy-free marg/veg marg etc... pinch of salt 1-2 tbsp. water Method rub the butter/marg into the flour until it resembles...