On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 3:15:00 PM UTC-5, Taxed and Spent wrote:
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> On 8/31/2016 12:42 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> > 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..
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> > 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.
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> I would not want to add heat during this process.
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Although I'm no baker I wouldn't want to add heat by using my
fingers/hands either. I'd either use a pastry cutter or the
fork and knife method she was using in the first place. But
if you have a food processor that would be the fastest and most
thorough method of cutting the fat into floor.