Quickest Puff Pastry

Name: Quickest Puff Pastry
Yield: Makes about 1 1/2 pounds of dough
Ingredients: 2 cups, unbleached all-purpose flour, about 9 ounces (255 grams); 20 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1/2-inch dice (4 tablespoons kept separate); 1 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, cold water, plus a tablespoon more, if necessary

Desserts or Baked Goods

Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1994

Using a food processor and a new jelly-roll folding method, home cooks can now make puff pastry easily and quickly.

SERVES Makes about 1 1/2 pounds of dough

TIME 25 minutes, plus 1 hour chilling

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