Karp Family Recipes

Pate Sablee

Category: Breads

Serves: 1 shell

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 3 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 10 tablespoons butter, cut in 1/2-inch cubes, chilled 1 egg yolk 2 tablespoons ice water

Directions:

In the bowl of a food processor, combine the flour, sugar, and salt. Pulse to combine. Add the butter and pulse the food processor on and off until the mixture resembles coarse sand with pea-sized lumps of butter still showing. Add the egg yolk and the ice water and pulse on and off until the mixture comes together but does not form a single mass. Turn the dough out onto a clean surface and gather it up into a loose ball. Working with a small bit of dough at a time, smoosh the dough across the counter away from you with the heel of your hand and then scrape it up with a pastry cutter and gather it back together, forming a second ball. Repeat with the remaining dough until all the smooshed dough is in a single ball. Flatten into a disk, wrap well in plastic wrap, and let rest in the refrigerator at least 30 minutes and up to overnight.