Sweet Dough for Pies and Tarts Recipe

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Sweet Dough for Pies and Tarts
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Ingredients
6
Count
Nutrition
351
Calories
Total time
120
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1 cup (about 4 1/2 oz) all-purpose bleached flour
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp baking powder
  • 1/8 tsp salt
  • 4 tbsp (1/2 stick) cold unsalted butter
  • 1 large egg

Directions:

  1. To mix the dough by hand, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to dry ingredients. Toss once or twice to coat pieces of butter. Using your hands or a pastry blender, rub the butter into the dry ingredients by breaking it into tiny pieces, continuously pinching and squeezing it into the dry ingredients. Be careful to keep the mixture uniform by occasionally reaching down to the bottom of the bowl and mixing all the ingredients evenly together. Continue rubbing the butter into the dry ingredients until the mixture resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible. Beat the egg(s) in a small bowl and pour over the flour and butter mixture. Stir in with a fork, continuing to stir until the dough begins to hold together, but still appears somewhat dry. Scatter flour on the work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth.
  2. To mix the dough in the food processor, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder in work bowl fitted with metal blade. Pulse 3 times at 1-second intervals to mix. Cut butter into 1-tablespoon pieces and add to work bowl. Process, pulsing repeatedly at 1-second intervals, until the mixture is fine and powdery, resembles a coarse-ground cornmeal and no large pieces of butter remain visible, about 15 pulses in all. Add the egg(s) to the work bowl and pulse 10 times or so, until the dough forms a ball. Scatter flour on the work surface and scrape the dough onto it. Press and knead the dough quickly 3 or 4 times, until it is smooth.
  3. Press the dough into a disk (two equal disks for the larger amount of dough). Sandwich the disk(s) of dough between two pieces of plastic wrap and press it into a 6-inch disk. Refrigerate the dough until firm, or until you are ready to use it, at least 1 hour
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 351.01 Kcal (1470 kJ)
Calories from fat 334.26 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 37.14g 57%
Cholesterol 115.78mg 39%
Sodium 42.52mg 2%
Potassium 33.46mg 1%
Total Carbs 4.66g 2%
Sugars 2.35g 9%
Dietary Fiber 0.09g 0%
Protein 1.39g 3%
Vitamin A 0.5mg 15%
Iron 0.3mg 1%
Calcium 19.5mg 2%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 630.88 Kcal (2641 kJ)
Calories from fat 600.78 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 66.75g 57%
Cholesterol 208.1mg 39%
Sodium 76.42mg 2%
Potassium 60.14mg 1%
Total Carbs 8.38g 2%
Sugars 4.23g 9%
Dietary Fiber 0.16g 0%
Protein 2.49g 3%
Vitamin A 0.8mg 15%
Iron 0.5mg 1%
Calcium 35.1mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 10.1
    Points
  • 10
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

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