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Pastry Dough with Butter

 Butter-- 95 grams or 1 cup, very cold
 Flour-- 195 grams, or appx 2 1/4 cups total (1 cup Stutzman whole grain flour and 1.25 cups refined flour)
 Egg-- 1 yolk
 Water-- 3 tbsps
 Salt-- just a pinch
First stop-- chilly butter.
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You’ll need about 95 grams (appx 1 cup) cold-as-possible-without-being- frozen-butter. Cut it up into small pieces and then put it back into the fridge to chill from the cutting.

Next up-- blending butter and flour.
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The goal here is for the flour to “host” the butter-- incorporated but still distinct. When this dough hits the hot oven, the fat particles will grab hold of the flour and burst-- this leaves you with a flaky, buttery crust.

If using a food processor:
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Add in the flour, the salt and the very-cold-butter.
Pulse in the processor until it starts to resemble cornmeal.
Make a well. In another bowl, whisk together the egg yolk and the water, and then pour it into the mixer. Begin to pulse until it becomes a dough.

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Wrap in cellophane and slide into the fridge.

If mixing by hand:
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In a bowl, mix together the flours and the salt, and turn it out onto a cold surface (like a pastry slab or countertop), and make a well in the center.

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In another bowl, whisk together the egg yolk and the water.

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Put the very-cold-butter in the middle.

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Start to chop the butter into small pieces with a dough cutter.

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Pour in the yolk-water mixture. Begin to chop them both into the flour, compiling them into one heap.

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Use one hand and push the dough away from you at an angle, and chop-chop-chop all the way back. Don’t use too much force as you knead-- you’ll make the dough tougher.

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Gently knead once the butter is incorporated.

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...till you arrive at one uniform ball.

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Wrap it in cellophane and let it cool and rest in the fridge for a few hours.