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Sweet pastry
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Sweet pastry is very successful in the steam
combi oven because the steam makes the pastry
particularly light and crumbly.
Always use well-chilled butter or margarine.
To make pastry in a food processor, process all
the ingredients together in the machine and only
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ing powder in a bowl, and make a well in the
centre. Pour the beaten eggs into the well and
scatter the sugar and diced fat round the edge.
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wooden spoon; work in the fat and more of the
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then proceed according to the recipe. Dust the
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or needs to be rolled out especially thinly, it can
be rolled between two sheets of baking parch-
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Any pieces of pastry left over from cutting out
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crumbly, add a little egg yolk. Sweet pastry can
be prepared well in advance. Well wrapped up, it
will keep in the fridge for two or three days.
Sourdough
Sourdough is an agent for aerating dough and
is mostly used for heavy wholemeal rye or grist
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ideal temperature for developing sour dough
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takes longer to develop and sometimes it does
not develop at all. At higher temperatures fewer
acids are produced and the resulting taste can be
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bubbles.
Sourdough can be kept in the refrigerator in a
screw-top jar for a few days and can be frozen
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Before baking the bread place the dough in the
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