Basic Pastry
1 ½ cups flour
125g chopped cold butter
1 tsp fine black pepper
1egg lightly beaten
1 tsp lemon juice
Rub butter into flour until resembles bread crumbs. Add in eggs, pepper and lemon juice to make dough. Press dough into a ball and knead gently on a floured surface until smooth. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Divide pastry in half. Roll each half between plastic until 2mm thick. Cut fluted rounds from each half of pastry. Place rounds into greased muffins trays. Prick well worth a fork. cover with plastic and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Bake for 10 minutes in preheated oven on 180C. Remove from oven and leave to cool. Fill pastry cases with preferred filling and pour Quiche (pronounced as Keech) mixture over. Bake in preheated oven for about 15 minutes or until set on 180C
Basic Quiche mixture:
½ milk
½ cup cream
2 eggs lightly beaten
* whisk all ingredients in a bowl a pour over filling in the pastry cases
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