A tip from Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets

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A tip from Raymond Blanc's Kitchen Secrets

Postby Victors Mate » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:56 pm

Picked up this tip new to me but I bet some of you do it this way. When rolling out pastry instead of throwing flour everywhere roll out the pastry between two sheets of cling film, much easier to handle and far less messy. When you then put the pastry onto the top of a pie just peel off the cling film from one side of the pastry and keep the other in place to make the manoeuvring of the pastry into position much easier. In meerkat speak simples
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Postby DaisyB » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:07 pm

Or use silicon paper.
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Postby Rowan » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:18 pm

Good ideas there.
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Postby mazzy » Tue Mar 09, 2010 7:54 am

First you have to be able to make pastry that can be rolled out!!! I can't.
My pastry is awful. I have tried everything - my mother was a wonderful pastry cook. I have shadowed her every move, and still ended up with something nasty!
Even frozen pastry refuses to behave.
I can just about manage the ready rolled stuff.

Good tip though...................maybe one day!
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