[Sca-cooks] porter cake, rubbing in butter, etc.
Sayyida Halima al-Shafi'i of Raven's Cove
lkuney at ec.rr.com
Thu Dec 25 16:35:15 PST 2003
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>Sieve the flour and rub in the butter;
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>> > "rub in the butter"? What does this mean? I've heard of folding in
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>> > butter. Is this something different?
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This is characteristic of British recipes. It means you cut up the
butter into slices, drop it into the flour, and stick your meathooks
into the bowl and rub the butter into the flour with your fingers. This
yields a corn-mealy texture. When I lived in England, my British
friends though I was being "prissy" (not wanting to get my hands dirty)
when I used two knives to cut in some butter while making pastry. They
really thought I was nuts. If you use an electric blender and cream the
butter and flour, you'll get paste.
Halima
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