On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:18:45 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
wrote:

>On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 4:53:16 PM UTC-10, Cheri wrote:
>> "dsi1" <dsi1yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> ...
>> 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 saw some tv cook use a frozen stick of butter for biscuits, he shredded it
>> into the flour with a box grater. It does work well for pie crust too.
>>
>> Cheri
>
>I have heard of this. It seems like a good idea. I don't like the idea of using butter instead of shortening for biscuits or shortcrust so I probably won't be trying it - maybe I should try it with frozen shortening.

I always use a cheese grater to grate the butter into the flour
mixture. Easy peasy.
Don't see why it wouldn't work with frozen shortening

koko

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