Stretch and Stretch

Making Water Pastry

(Phyllo Pastry)

Working with pastry is fun, make it from scratch, and it is inexpensive.  What you need are time and patience.  Today I was making water pastry.  The ingredients are plain flour, oil, salt and warm water.
I will use the pastry for baking a delicious ricotta, leeks and egg pie.

The key is to make a firm dough, knead it until smooth, shiny and elastic,  then wrap it up, rest it for a few hours.  After resting the batter, rolling and stretching has to be done, that is where the fun begins.

Homemade Pastry

Mix flour, warm water, oil and salt together to make 

soft dough, knead lightly to make a round dough.

Wrap the dough in plastic wrap, rest for a few hours

Unwrap the dough, place on a floured board, knead

lightly

Knead and roll the dough to make a long sausage shape

Roll the dough to make the thin pastry

Roll the dough again, to make a more extensive and thinner pastry

Keep on rolling to make a bigger pastry.

Transfer over to a clean large cotton cloth, stretch the pastry

to make a very thin pastry

Stretch and stretch the pastry until so thin

and the pastry is larger

Place your hands under the dough and gently pull it using the backs of your hands, and work until the dough is as thin as paper. You could

almost read a recipe or newspaper through the pastry.  It may tear or

develop holes, but it's alright.

The pastry now is resting on top of the cloth, year

there are holes

 The look of the pastry from a different angle

Cover the pastry with a cloth until you are ready to

use.

The pastry is thin, good enough even though there are holes, I am using the pastry for baking ricotta, leeks and egg pie.  It is going to be baked in a pie tin.  I may have to patch up the holes, but I think it is going to be alright.

I could use it for apple strudels; however, I have to be very careful to patch up the holes and to roll it properly, I would say it is a little bit harder.

It has been fun in the kitchen today, I enjoyed to make this pastry, and tomorrow I am going to cook the pie.  Stay Tuned.

To Be Continued

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Susy