Only butter tastes like butter. by Marcus Bean. That said, I've read that you can make shortcrust type pastry with oil only. But if you want a really buttery flavour, try making your own rough puff. Puff pastry contains so few ingredients (flour, butter, water, salt), so if you're going to the trouble to make it yourself, you should use the absolute best ingredients you can find. Add the 10 tablespoons (5 ounces) of COLD butter chopped into pieces, and then begin to work the butter into the flour mixture using a pastry blender, two forks, or your fingertips. Sure! Is there a Vegan substitute? Puff pastry is a light flaky pastry made from thin sheets of dough that are baked with layers of butter that melt as it's cooked, leaving airy pockets in the pastry. Choux pastry gets soft after a few hours. The sheets are then rolled together with alternating layers of butter. Save this Shortcrust pastry with soft margarine recipe and more from Margaret Fulton's Encyclopedia of Food & Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z to your own online collection at EatYourBooks.com Roll the puff pastry out to your desired thickness and get creative! You can make it with vegan butter as well. And while you can make your own puff pastry; it may be easier to buy it from the store. Vegan puff pastry will call for vegan margarine. To make simple and pretty Brie and jam bites, start by rolling out your puff pastry to 1/2" thickness. Margarine is usually spreadable and not mouldable, so it might be tricky to achieve the 'puff' texture. You could use our vegan pastry recipe here, omitting the icing sugar for a savoury pie. You can make excellent pastry with margarine. Making Puff Pastry From Pie Crust From Scratch Is Certainly Not A Good Idea: If you want to make your puff pastry, then you will take a lot of your time, and you will also need a lot of labor. Can margarine be used instead of butter? hard margarine. It’s not the nature of choux pastry to remain crisp for hours / days. The reason why chouquettes may seem crisp is because of the sugar pearls on top. While it's similar to the Middler Eastern phyllo, the recipe for puffed pastry was perfected in France. Look for a recipe specially made using that type of fat. The most popular vegan store bought vegan puff pastry is Pepperidge Farm. For the record I did find President's Choice Butter Puff Pastry; however it is not made 100% with butter. Can you make pastry vegan? You can also use ready-made vegan pastry, widely available in supermarkets. Getting puff pastry warm will melt the buttery layers that you’ve worked so hard to achieve. Mostly, the dough is rolled out and pressed into thin sheets. joepastry says: 01/19/13 at 9:42 pm The best thing to use (assuming you can't use butter) is shortening, such as Crisco. Culinary historians believe that the original recipe may have come from Muslim Spain sometime before the 1700s. Stir gently. While butter is no doubt the best to use, you can make puff pastry with hard margarine, not the spreadable kind that comes in a tub. Sure, shop-bought puff pastry is fine most of the time. 1. Traditional puff pastry dough is made by encasing a slab of butter in a basic dough made with flour, water, butter and salt. Vegan pastry can be made with vegan margarine instead of butter. When you're ready to use it, thaw the dough if frozen. He says the margarine makes for a softer dough more suited to crossants while the butter makes a “crisper” dough better suited to uff pastry. Yes! Can you freeze pastry? Margarine which comes in sticks will have a higher melting point and is better. It also contains hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil margarine. Puff 42 is a pastry margarine, specially formulated to produce a plastic-like... 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