Excerpt from The Peerless Pastry Book Containing Recipes for Baking and Pastry Work Take 9 lbs dry flour, 2 lbs. Butter (as in part A), 1 oz. Baking powder, 1 egg, pinch of salt, work it as for pie paste. Then take enough ice water to make a paste to about the same firmness as the butter. Roll out flat and fold it in four, roll out again four times in all, and the paste is ready for use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.