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Top rated Shortcrust pastry recipes

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Lovely sweet tart filled with custard cream and top with fresh raspberries

  • 100g shortcrust pastry
  • 100g fresh raspberries
  • 50 ml double cream
  • 50 ml milk
  • 2 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1/2 teaspoon cornflour
3.4/5 (158 Votes)

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Roll out the pastry and place into a flan tin

  • 750g ripe and fragrant raspberries.
  • 1 roll of shortcrust pastry.
  • Filling:
  • 20 cl of creme fraiche.
  • 3 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 sachet of vanilla sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • and a few mint leaves
3.8/5 (148 Votes)

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This tart is the only thing I actually like pears in, so definitely something for everyone to try

  • For the pastry:
  • 50g unsalted butter
  • 100g plain white flour
  • 25g cocoa powder
  • 50g caster sugar
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • For the filling:
  • 3 tbsp ginger marmalade
  • 1 tin of pears
  • 100g good quality dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa)
  • 50g unsalted butter
  • 2 eggs, yolks seperated from whites
  • 100g caster sugar
  • You will also need baking beans
3.5/5 (137 Votes)

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These apple pie are delicious and easy to make

  • 300g short crust pastry
  • 300g cooking apple
  • 100g sugar
3.4/5 (137 Votes)

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Tasty short crust pastry that can be used for sweet or savoury

  • 225g Plain flour
  • 175g Butter
  • 1 Egg yolk
  • 2 tbsp Caster sugar
  • Cold water as required
  • Clingfilm
4.6/5 (43 Votes)

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A good is crust is all it takes to take your pie from passable to unsurpassable

  • 225g plain flour
  • 100g butter, diced
  • pinch salt
3.5/5 (131 Votes)

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Sieve flour and salt into a bowl

  • 125g plain flour
  • 75g Wholemeal flour
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 100g fat(butter in a block,e.tc)
  • Cold water(about 2tbsp)
3.4/5 (138 Votes)

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Find this recipe for Indian Curried Vegetable Pasties, rated 2

  • 1/2 Onion
  • 2 Carrots
  • 3 Potatoes
  • 5 Cauliflower Florets
  • 5 Mushrooms (cut into 20 slices in total)
  • 100g Green Beans
  • 2 Cloves of Garlic
  • 2 Tsp's Mild Korma Curry Powder
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil to fry
  • Grated Cheese (optional)
  • 1x500g Block of Shortcrust Pastry
3.5/5 (100 Votes)

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A thin, crisp shortcrust base with a flaky, buttery, puff pastry top, encasing an orange scented little mouthful of...

  • 1 x 375g sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry
  • 1 x sheet of ready rolled puff pastry
  • 300g jar of mincemeat
  • Zest of one orange
  • handful of dried cranberries and sour cherries
  • 1 egg, beaten
  • 100 g icing sugar sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
3.2/5 (118 Votes)

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This is hands-down the best sweet shortcrust pastry recipe!

  • 110g Butter
  • 55g Sugar
  • 175g Flour
4.4/5 (16 Votes)

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