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This is our simple website - running on a beaglebone black, it hosts our favourite recipes and cakes, and things that interest us. There's an area for the kids for when they start to learn computing at school, and a personal blog for us all

General Baking

    Shortcrust pastry

    The way to remember this is - half fat to flour....

    
500g plain flour
125g vegetable fat
125g butter
100g icing sugar (for sweet shortcrust)

    Chop the fat and butter into cubes and rub with finger tips to create a crumb. If making sweet shortcrust, stir throuh the icing sugar. Add cold water (up to 8 tbsp) until the pastry just comes together - don't over work it. Rest the pastry in a bag in the fridge for at least half an hour.