Baking Classics
The Technique
Pâte Sucrée
Pâte Sucrée is a rich French pastry or pie dough prepared with sugar & an egg yolk that aides in binding crusts. It’s ideal to use in a variety of recipe applications from pies & tarts to freeform galettes. Cold ingredients & dough will always yield the best, flakiest results so use the refrigerator & freezer to keep it well chilled throughout the procedure. Buttermilk Pâte Sucrée may be made in a food processor however combining by hand using a pastry blender will produce a fine bakeshop quality like no other. Learn how to make an all butter Pâte Sucrée that is ideal to use for many casual & elevated recipe styles.
Buttermilk Pâte Sucrée
makes 1 {10-inch} pie crust
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp kosher salt
3/4 cup cold butter, cut into pieces
4 Tbsp ice cold whole buttermilk
1 egg yolk
Whisk together the flour, the sugar & the salt in a large bowl. Cut the butter into the mixture using a pastry blender or your fingers until crumbly in texture making certain to leave some of the fat in large bits. Drizzle the buttermilk & the egg yolk over the mixture. Fold it together with a rubber spatula then shape it into a compact mixture between your hands. Remove the dough from the bowl, form into a disc & cover in plastic wrap. Chill 20 minutes. Use as directed in specific recipe applications.
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How To Make Pâte Sucrée
Cold ingredients are key to achieving the flakiness desired for exceptional Pâte Sucrée however it is the addition of sugar which adds incredible sweet flavor to many fruit based summer tarts & galettes as well as an egg yolk that sets it apart from it’s counterpart, Pâte Brisée. The egg yolk binds the crust & it tastes much like a shortbread cookie. Look to The Basics: Pâte Brisée for detailed photos that illustrate the proper procedure in which to blend a good quality pastry dough.
The Technique
A pastry blender is a valuable tool in the kitchen for preparing many types of pie & tart doughs. Since cold butter is extremely firm, it will cut through & distribute throughout the mixture quickly. Once you get a good start, remove the tool from the bowl & finish the task by hand. This will allow the fat to be distributed in the proper size & allow a flaky texture during the baking process.
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