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FusionChef.com
Puff
Pastry
(Produces
79 oz)
The
Stage at Monsieur Vergé's restaurant in Mougin brought me so much knowledge.
Before that, I was making puff pastry by mixing flour and water first to make a Detrempe.
Then, I would tour
the butter inside the dough to make layers just like it says on the Escofier's
cook book. The pastry chef at Moulin de Mougin
changed me...
Tools:
-Pastry roller pin - Refrigeration -laminoire
if available (Electric rolling machine) -sheet pan -parchment paper
Ingredients:-
to convert - 1
tsp. salt
-16 oz. butter
at room temperature
-5 oz. water
-16 oz pastry flour
Steps:
1)
Cut
half the butter (8 oz) into small pieces and bind with flour and salt in
Kitchen Aid with paddle or by hand. Work until butter is very fine and crumbly.
2) Add cold water at once and
mix for 5 minutes.
Make a big ball, cover, and put in the refrigerator for 15 min.
3)
Put the remaining butter, between 2 sheets of parchment
paper. Pound the
butter to get it soft and
give a square shape 6" wide.
Dough and butter must have equal consistency.
3)
Take the dough and cut an "X" half way down.
Pull the four pieces toward the outside and roll into flaps (the flaps should
be long enough to cover the butter block
and dough, half the dough should be in the base and half in the flaps).
4)
Fold the flaps back
to reformed square block.
5)
Roll in one direction evenly.
6)
Fold into thirds, first toward you then away (rotate to the right, the top flap
is always on the right).
7)
Repeat the rolling and folding for 6 times, resting the dough
in the refrigerator 15 min between
two turns.
8)
Let rest 1½ hour.
Puff pastry must be rolled cold into 3/8" thick sheets
 
Drawing by:
Young Sup Kim
Cooking
tips:
To
avoid shrinkage, sheets of puff pastry must rest in a refrigerator at least 1
hour before baking.
Also, puff pastry must be started in a 400º oven for 5 min then finished at
300º.
The process can be rushed by using the freezer between turns.
If the dough is cold enough, a pasta machine could be use to roll it.
Chemistry:
(to be developed)
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