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Julia Child's Pastry Dough

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Ingredients

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  • 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup cake flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, diced, chilled
  • 1/4 cup vegetable shortening, chilled
  • 1 teaspoon white vinegar
  • 1/2 cup very cold water

Instructions

  1. In a food processor fitted with the metal blade, combine the flours and salt. (If you don’t have cake flour, you can substitute all-purpose flour.)
  2. Pulse once or twice to blend. Add the butter and shortening and pulse five or six times to cut the fat into the flour. The mixture should resemble coarse crumbs.
  3. Combine the vinegar with the cold water.
  4. With the processor running continuously, pour the liquid down the feed tube all at once. As soon as the dough begins to form a ball around the blade, stop the machine.
  5. Lay a piece of plastic wrap on a work surface and dump out the dough onto the plastic, scraping the bowl and the blade with a rubber spatula.
  6. Pat the dough into a ball, wrap tightly, and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before using.