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On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 13:14:58 -0700, Taxed and Spent
> wrote:

> On 8/31/2016 12:42 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 5:22:20 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> >> I've been wanting chicken pot pie and had all the fixings, so I used
> >> up a couple pieces of chicken and odds & ends of vegetables in the
> >> vegetable drawer that weren't enough volume to serve two. The crust
> >> is my usual food processor butter pastry, with black pepper and
> >> parmesan cheese. The crumbles you see on top are seasoned and
> >> rendered chicken skins. Yummy!
> >>
> >> Pictures in alt.binaries.food
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> I love cooking with wine.
> >> Sometimes I even put it in the food.

> >
> > When I went downstairs this morning, I saw my daughter demurely cutting some butter into some flour using a fork and a knife. She had her earphones on and was in some kind of happy place. I told her to quit using such a pansy method of cutting butter and proceeded to jam my hand in there and started rubbing the butter in to break it up and incorporate it into the flour.
> >
> > Hopefully, she learned that mixing in the butter this way is a lot faster. When she bakes the biscuits, she'll probably find that it produces a better product. Then she will do that for the rest of her life. It's what I do with shortcrust too.
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/sh...hare_link_copy
> >

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> I would not want to add heat during this process.


You're going to rest the dough for 20-30 minutes in the refrigerator,
so it won't matter.

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I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.