Homemade Pastry – kids, have you forgotten how good it tastes?

A quick and simple guide to making pastry.

Pastry is the first grown up thing I can remember making.  The delight of rubbing the cold hard lumps of fat into the flour to create a light, crumbly sand texture, with mum, sits with me still.   Why make your own I can hear you groan, because kids, it has a certain crumbly deliciousness that is hard to replicate in bulk.  Eaters always ask oooh yummy did you make this pastry, I rest my case. I make mine in the food processor now, it lacks the romance of making by hand, but I am time poor. Processor pastry tastes almost as good as mum’s buttery crisp crusts and is cheaper and tastier than the bought, so I am happy to pass this method on, in case you have forgotten my early teachings, and want to show your own children, just once, please!

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