Mince-pie Paste Recipe

Ingredients, one pound of flour, eight ounces of butter or lard, three

gills of water, half an ounce of salt, a tea-spoonful of baking-powder.

Place the flour on the table, hollow out a hole or well in the centre

with your fist, place the salt and baking-powder in this, add the water

and the butter, work all together lightly with the fingers, without

positively absorbing or entirely uniting the butter with the flour,

but, on the contrary, keeping the butter in distinct pieces here and

there; then roll up the paste in the form of a ball of dough, spread it

out on the floured table, and, with a rolling-pin, roll it out to the

extent of eighteen inches in length, by eight inches wide; then fold the

paste in three equal folds, roll it out the reverse way, fold it up

again as before, and after repeating the rolling out and folding up a

third time, the paste will be ready for use.

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