This is a quick and easy recipe for shortcrust pastry. If you're new to making pastry, you won't believe how simple it can be. You can make it by hand or in a food processor. The secret is to ...

Shortcrust, puff pastry and their relatives need to be kept cool for best results. This means chilling the ingredients and the utensils before making the pastry, and working on a cool surface ...

Press pastry into the tin, right into the edges, and leave about 1cm overhang of pastry (shortcrust pastry tends to shrink a little during baking). Roll the rolling pin over the top of the tin to ...

To prepare the shortcrust pastry, put in the mixer equipped with blades the flour (1), the cold butter in pieces from the ...